Analysis of `Mother`(gay icon!)
Mother-the up to date story?
Mother, once a `gay` icon at the very pinnacle of her scene,
Now lies, like Titanic, on her bottom- yesterday’s `Queen`,
she’s seen it all, and in her time, mincing here and there, done much.
(even berated lesbians, with her wicked mouth-who are far too `butch`)
The smooth features sadly now replaced by pimples and warts,
these days lounge lizards are all the bounders she thwarts!
Her dress is OK -if you really do like that type of thing,
(she was the one, `daan in taan` who invented bling!)
When this model was launched, far away, the pattern they threw,
`twas distance not direction that counted- only one `mother anew`,
such opulence, such finery-despite expense, no detail overlooked,
but see her now and she’s like a dog’s dinner-long over cooked!
This once proud Dame-light on her feet, at balls, she did `twinkle`
has got a face full of passion-you can see it in ev`ry wrinkle?!
So just wot can be done to fix this doddery, aged `super star`,
creams maybe-plastic surgeons arrive to speculate, from afar,
the `writing is on the wall`-I think the time has now come
instead of waving her legs skyward -to just SIT on her bum-
with pipe and slippers she’ll make a scene no-one knows-
no longer will she be out on her bike scaring the crows!
We miss her happy chant, `”next please” and colourful attire,
unfortunately this `bird` ,even in auction, cannot find a buyer,
but, happily, she’ll be in our midst for a little bit longer,
even though those ancient bones can no longer conga!
Amen (and Awomen!)
Scheme | XAABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKKX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011110 10101101010100101 1110101010101 111100011010111 100101001010111111 0110101111001 11110110111 011111110111111 110110110101 11101110101011 1101010110101101 11001100010110110 110101101101101 1111110111111 1101111011110110 1111111111111 110101001110101 0111011101111 011100110111101 110101101111 11011111011001 1101011101010 010001110010101010 11001101011010110 1011101111010 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,532 |
Words | 273 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 25, 1 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 599 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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