Analysis of Equalizer
Retirement is an equalizer: alike are one and all.
Position, titles and status do nothing to enthrall.
Chief executive officers, with business puissance,
must hobnob as coequals, forsaking arrogance.
Custodial caretakers, with quiet servitude,
must socialize as cronies, axing ingratitude.
University professors, with scholastic power,
must commingle as colleagues, deleing ivory tower.
The humblest of file clerks, with menial labor,
must ascend to partnership as a friendly neighbor.
Medical practitioners, with rehabilitative skill,
must mix as coadjutors to promulgate goodwill.
Firefighters and policeman, with great authority,
must fraternize as compeers to achieve comity.
Retirement is an equalizer: alike are one and all.
The steelyard's shifting balances equipoise big and small.
Scheme | AabbccddddeeffAa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010011100011101 0101001011011 101001001101 1111010100 01001011010 11011011 0100010101010 1010110110010 0100111110010 101110101010 1000100101001 1111101011 1000010110100 11011101100 010011100011101 01101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 774 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 651 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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