Analysis of Onto my lonely hour
Onto my lonely hour,
i sat unengagely at bay,
dismissing all flimsy memories
that has made decades to keep me company.
All,i saw derisory
but,one,which seems obstinate;
it carried my lonely thought,
to the fore-front
of my thoughts,
where my pretence was invaded, and these sneering sight shown t'me;
there,
i saw those who breaks the seals of our manifesto,
only to rebind them during the electioneering year.
with there ice piece of oratory,
and their chronological promises,
they tries to bind us together,
only to disbond us during their rainy days;
there,
i saw those who tortures us,
so as to gain their freedom,
those who crucifies us,
so as to gain their resurrection.
pumping the air of imbroglio into our nostrils
while the whirling wind in their home stead is tranquility;
there,
i saw those who licks our wounds,
and promise to bite
them if we dare scream.
for our cries open the gate of criticism
and closes the window of unprofitable imperialism;
only the weakling i see surviving,
and not for my pretence,i saw myself dying;
there,
i saw my colleagues-the praise singers singing,
they sing to the tones of the lords
and chief,
their faces fill'd with smiles and their heart stinking of hatred.
I saw them as the only survivors
and a compatible race to rise;
there
i saw my thought being flogged
and my face betraying me.
then i knew i was on my lonely hour;
just like a chick carried by a hawk,
it led me to golgothar,
where my flesh vanished
and my bones singing hymes all day long;
prosterity shall read me daily
b'cos my thoughts are written on my bones!
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Metre | 1011010 11111 010110100 11101111100 1011 11100 1101101 1011 111 111101001101111 1 111110111001 1011110000101 11111100 010100100 11111010 10111101101 1 1111101 1111110 1111 11111010 10011010011010 10101011110100 1 11111101 01011 11111 110110011100 01001010100001000 1001011010 011111110 1 11110011010 11101101 01 11011101110110 1111010010 000100111 1 1111101 0110101 11111111010 110110101 11111 11110 011101111 111110 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,524 |
Words | 284 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 7, 7, 8, 7, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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