Analysis of Power For Sale
Politics brings out the worst in us,
if in doubt—turn on the news
The denominator sinking low,
false prophets in the pews
All lust for privilege, fairness damned,
as old as man himself
Truth getting buried inside the deck,
as the bottom card gets dealt
Politics poisons and spoils the well,
leaving the common good to drown
Our animal natures, where dog eats dog
—power for sale by the pound
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110101 1011101 00100101 110001 11110101 111101 110100101 1010111 10100101 10010111 10100101111 1011101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 435 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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