The homicididal monkey



THE HOMICIDIDAL MONKEY

Man is the homicical monkey
His purpose is to exploit the lesser monkeys
And serve the greater!

He is so wild and so viscious
The only way to tame him
Is to give him a gaoler that he can hideously abuse

Woman is the gaoler in the monkey cage
Who willingly goes into the dark with him
Who feeds his rage and fear

This artful gaoler that goes into the darkness alone
And when he does his worst her screams of pain encourage him to redouble his energy
This wolf-monkey in the darkness

And when he has spent himself, like magic she is gone
But he is still there alone in his prison in the darkness
And dead.
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Submitted on July 24, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A ABX BCX XCX XAD XDX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 611
Words 121
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

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