Analysis of A Mob Attack



Against six humans inside a car,
There were hundreds outside, and they
Waged a war and nobody cared who died!
They had spars, and they dared and tried,
To make the largest scars, with fury they eyed;
Rang bells to celebrate as the unfortunate cried.
Conflagration in their inebriated minds,
Would they leave that untried?
With every hoot and remorseless howl,
Tyrannical hatred in their every scowl;
And brute force in every killer hurl,
Of stones and bricks, with a fetish snarl;
Shattered the glasses on every side,
Those battered with rocks many inches wide;
Dented all the metal and thus they took pride,
Attacked to unsettle and shove the car down upside!
The occupants were hurt and lot more scared,
For such barbarians they were unprepared;
Overwhelmed to unwillingly surrender,
To the sudden savagery, undeclared!
Chances were slender that they would be spared,
Though the women folk pleaded for mercy;
Never in their dreams could they fancy,
The amusement caused by the rampancy!
The catcalls, whistles and buzz of cheers,
Defied and derided their despairing tears;
Rather the burly murderous men,
Threw brutal blows in multiples of ten;
The very morning they mortally wounded many men,
It was fiendish pleasure in doing it again and again...


Scheme ABCCCCDCEEFGCCCCHHIHHJJDKLMMMM
Poetic Form Etheree  (23%)
Metre 011100101 10101101 10101111 11101101 11010111011 111101001001 0100101001 111101 1100100101 010010011001 0110100101 110110101 1001011001 1101110101 10101001111 0110100101111 0100010111 1101001001 0110100010 1010100001 1001011111 1010110110 100111110 00101101 01100111 01001010101 100101001 1101010011 01010110010101 111010010101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,222
Words 207
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 30
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 1,008
Words per stanza (avg) 207
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Submitted on August 25, 2012

Modified on March 25, 2023

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