Analysis of Big Brother



When I was a little lad I adored my big brother.
He appeared as wise and strong compared to any other.
He was grades ahead in school and knew about everything.
When it came to facts of life I acknowledged him as king.
He was tall and muscle bound, I felt safe when he was there.
No one dared to test his might; he strolled with enormous flair.
After many years had passed, each on independent trails,
again we reconnected; with changes, time never fails.
Now my big brother has shrunk in substantive attributes.
He's become perfidious; he owns stupid platitudes.
His prodigious mind expired from the paucity of use.
Constricted grew his logic; his reasoning grew obtuse.
His muscles have atrophied; he's ineffectively lame.
None should fear the impotence conspicuous in his game.
The woeful disenchantment over one most revered
generates a dissonance that's disappointingly weird.


Scheme AABBCCDDEFGGHHII
Poetic Form
Metre 11101011011110 10111010111010 1110101010110 11111111010111 11101011111111 11111111110101 1010111110101 01100101101101 1111011010010 1011111010 10101011010011 01011101100101 1101100111 11101000100011 0100010101101 1001001001001
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 865
Words 147
Sentences 14
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 44
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 708
Words per stanza (avg) 147
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Submitted on January 02, 2010

Modified on April 06, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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