Analysis of In Arrogance You Condemn Yourselves
When death swallows my name,
the gallows will rocket in the sky.
With noose-woven wings in stain,
dancing with shadows, on four-ply.
A hooded hulk, his swollen wrist,
blank stare through burlap tears.
Will remember a girl never kissed,
as the height of any man's fears.
The judge in glutton's sucked eye,
will finger his navel in robes of fire.
His stolen conscience, will rareify,
with sedition of syntax alibi, in tire.
When a mob gathers, fat-cocked,
smug, with self-righteous certitude.
My spirit will p*ss on them, shocked,
at how biased they sing in gratitude.
As justice calls out my name in vain,
I'll be freedom's namesake in bold.
While karma back-tracks in red vein,
my blood blends spirit into new gold!
Scheme | XABA CXCX ADXD EFEF BGBG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 111011 010110001 1110101 1011111 01011101 11111 101001101 10111011 010111 11011001110 1101011 10101110010 1011011 1111010 110111111 111011010 110111101 1110101 11011011 111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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