Analysis of Resentment



What claimed defense is theirs.
Those that declare,
A sharing of resentment.
To have weaponized themselves,
With the purpose to protect...
Possessions.
Against the ones homeless and hungry.
And,
What is this excessive obsessive need...
These same people have while sitting to wish,
For threats to create that keep deepening...
An economic debt.
To fault the doing of it,
On ethnic diversity.
Critical race and replacement theories.
Done to mention and many say diminishes,
The entitled rights of a quality of life...
That the exclusive feeding of those greedy,
Have consciously done day and night.
Feasting as if leeches to satisfy,
Self serving appetites.
And this they hold resentment towards,
Those hungry and homeless...
Ignored on a daily basis.
Yet despised attempting to survive,
Getting closer to the ones...
Causing devastation,
Corruption, division and crime experienced...
By everyone.

What claimed defense is theirs to justify?
With a reason,
To have weaponized themselves...
Against resentment.
Whose?
And from who or whom besides themselves,
Is this blame...
Felt to fear near them to threaten?
When the 'heat' to pack it,
Is right next door!
Steaming with a desire to pull the trigger.


Scheme xxaBxcdxxxxxedxxxdxfxxggxchxh fhBaxbxhexx
Poetic Form Tetractys  (25%)
Metre 110111 1101 0101010 11101 1010101 010 010110010 0 1110100101 1110111011 1110111100 10101 1101011 1100100 1001001010 111001010100 001011010011 10010101110 11001101 101110110 11010 011101001 110010 01101010 101010101 1010101 10010 010010010100 110 110111110 1010 11101 01010 1 011110101 111 11111110 101111 1111 101001011010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,201
Words 230
Sentences 26
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 29, 11
Lines Amount 40
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 475
Words per stanza (avg) 95
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Written on April 24, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on April 24, 2023

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