Analysis of The fake
He too did not wear a mask but he was the fake,
He was false in every task while he was awake!
Of his archetype if you ask there lay the mistake,
In whose glory he did bask and a living make!
He did replace one Maximus, quite an exemplar,
While the latter dubiously vanished when still popular;
And in his place there had to rise this common burglar,
It little mattered he was Dantalion, he looked very similar!
Sneak thief became the head honcho of the Underworld,
Nobody knew among the henchmen, whether young or old!
Though he never fired a bullet or a bomb he hurled,
Fear never blocked his gullet, only his moustache he twirled!
He was clever with words like Maximus was not;
Unlike the reign of terror, under him not a man was shot!
Still in the name of the dead it was quite a lot he got,
He only had to learn to live with the women so hot!
The role was too good and he was the superior artist,
He understood what not to be and was not an egotist;
Still better he knew till what time he could persist,
Money and power notwithstanding, which he had to resist!
Thus it was again an evening when the dead died once more,
After nine days in gangland, when no more he had to explore;
A whole fortune at his disposal nevermore to outscore,
With the limits he could spend, he vanished with a paramour!
Scheme | AAAA BCCC DXDD EEEE XFFF GGGB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 111110111101 1110100111101 111011111001 011011100101 1111111010 101011011100 0011111111010 110101111110100 110101101010 110101010111 11101001010111 1101110101111 1110111111 010111010110111 10011011110111 11011111101011 011110110010010 10111110111100 110111111101 10010010111101 11101110101111 10110111111101 01101101010101 1010111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,286 |
Words | 252 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on November 11, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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