Analysis of I've Reaped what They’ve Sown



I felt the generations were coarse
and very unkind,
placing blame with bitter words
to uphold their shrine.

Some seeds are now sown
with no regards to fully blooming,
just a few selective weeds,
marked to become the elite.

How many times have I reaped?
While opening myself up, like
wound on skin
and grazing in the soils of them
that’s been approved while they
spare nothing.

Does the water sprinkle the ground?
Where my seed is preserved, or as
there too much foreseen of my
hopes to enlighten the undeserved?

I hear the laughter in their
high-mindedness
nevertheless, they seek me out as
voice of reasons.
Beautiful flowers I call them,
grown from watered poisons,
gristles of buried rodents.

Marked out, I am, presently without
full being, forgetting their blood is
of mine
and the coarse of them has deepened
within me, as I comply to them with
a cunning smile.

I have reaped what the ones at rest
have sown however, I do not withdraw
from their impure sweetness.
For I walk upon them like a gentle
leopard while my mind is ravenously
haunting them like prey, to inherit my
feast.


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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,050
Words 193
Sentences 11
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6, 4, 7, 6, 7
Lines Amount 38
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sharon A. Long

My name is Sharon and I would like to state first that I do not consider myself a professional writer, I just write from the heart. I am single and never been married. I have two children, a boy and girl both grown. I reside in North Carolina where I was born but raised in Philadelphia since the age of three years old. I work as a Dietary Supervisor here in North Carolina at Nash Health Center. I love to write and read as well as listen to all types of music. I hope one day I can publish my poetry and short stories. I dream to become a Author even if it is to own one book as mine and my family's keepsake. more…

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