Analysis of Slaughter On The Campus (Virginia Tech)
A crazy leaves a ghastly wake of death and broken lives,
choosing all reason to forsake
as slaughter he contrives.
A madman offers no defense for his lethal attacks,
choosing all reason to incense
as slaughter he unpacks.
An angry man did traumatize unsuspecting students,
choosing all reason to excise
as slaughter he presents.
A lunatic shoots at random everybody who moves,
choosing all reason to benumb
as slaughter he approves.
He kills, before his suicide, thirty two innocents,
choosing all reason to deride
as slaughter he accents.
| Scheme | AXA XXA BXB CXC BXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010101110101 10110101 11011 0110101111001 10110101 11011 110111001010 10110101 110110 010111010011 1011011 110101 1101110101100 10110101 110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 525 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on January 13, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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