Analysis of Unanswered Cries
Do you need to be born in Africa or Haiti
to be saved
What about the single mother in the ghettos
of Detroit
Will an actor or politician or philanthropist
deem you worthy
Of a rescue from a situation that as assuredly
kills
Cable TV asks for your money for the starving
third world
While lost souls in your shadow are homeless, crying
—in plain sight
(Norristown Pennsylvania: January, 2021)
| Scheme | AXXXXAAXBXBX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110100110 111 101010100010 101 1110101010100 1110 101010010110100 1 1011111101010 11 11101111010 011 1010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 381 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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