Analysis of Envy
You are young and poor.
You are vigorous and beautiful.
You see a rich man passing,
Comfortable in his luxury sedan,
Diamonds flashing on his fingers.
You smile and wave, genuinely happy
For his conspicuous good fortune.
Your bare hands are brown and strong.
The streets are hot and dusty,
Your only clothes are cheap and dirty,
And you have no fixed address.
But you are young and bold
And your dreams sustain you.
Hope lights up your face
Because the rich man
Is all the proof you need.
And he waves to you,
His soul full of envy.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 111000100 1101110 10000110001 10101110 1101100010 110100110 1111101 0111010 110111010 011111 111101 011011 11111 01011 110111 01111 111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 419 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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