Analysis of Inside The Belly of A Slave Ship
the road to slavery shall die
this Profitable enterprise
so full of lies
someone's property or human chattel
chained in the belly of the slave ships,
side-by-side
chained by feet and chained by hands
where the rights of men denied
Lord, we curse the vipers,
the maggots and the Flies
| Scheme | ABBCDEFEGB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 01110011 1100010 1111 110011010 100101011 111 1110111 1011101 111010 010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 275 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 228 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Written on September 03, 2021
Submitted by gregory_g on September 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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