Analysis of Hala Bira!



Painted faces hide collective grimace,
Humiliation, hunger and pain,
A daily fare in their burdened existence;
But the festive antiphon kept resounding,
Hala Bira!
In articulated primordial scream
Bare feet stomping dusty pavements
To the beat of poorly constructed drums
With all their breaths a chorused cry
Hala Bira!
Prodding into numbness exhausted souls
Searching for relief in hypnotic mantra
Of a well rehearsed festive antiphon
Hala Bira!
The noisy procession left no
Impressions of their intentions,
But frustrations and rage found a voice;
Their feet stomping dusty pavements
To the beat of the festive antiphon
Hala Bira!


Scheme abcdEfgheEiejEklmgjE
Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1010101010 00101001 01010110010 1010101010 11 0010001001 11101010 1011100101 1111011 11 1001100101 10101001010 101011010 11 01001011 01011010 101001101 11101010 101101010 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 614
Words 98
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 525
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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Submitted by S07R06Enopena53 on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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