Analysis of Untouchable
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
Untouchable, they call us,
A curse upon this land.
Left alone, shunned by society,
We wander aimlessly, unknown.
Forgotten outcasts, labeled impure,
born into a caste not chosen.
No use,
No value,
Unclean,
And rotten,
Oppressed with subtle discrimination.
The touch of others denied to us,
But we are not lesser beings.
We have voices, we have fought,
And our spirits cannot be killed.
We stand tall, unafraid, and strong,
Brothers in a quest for justice.
Untouchable in name only,
We hold the power to change society.
| Scheme | AXBX XCXXXCC AXXX XABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100111 010111 101110100 11010001 01011001 10101110 11 110 01 010 011100010 011100111 11111010 1110111 010101011 1110101 10001110 01000110 11010110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 523 |
| Words | 108 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 7, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted by JoeStrickland on May 15, 2023
Modified by JoeStrickland on June 11, 2023
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