Analysis of Execute
Pensive in the guard shack of county jail
Enveloped by concrete and steel
This life is no longer real
Wounds are too cancerous to heal
Breath is unwanted.
Like animals caged in a zoo
bored with oatmeal and stew.
Dreaming is too hard to do.
Memories already haunted.
Zoo keepers robotically walk
Demeaning if they even talk
Glaring at those whom they stalk
Their lives cannot be good
No human one would work here
If they hold life very dear.
Negative violence and fear
Execute, maybe you should.
| Scheme | X AAAX BBBX CCCD XEED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1000111101 01010101 1111101 11110011 11010 11001001 11101 1011111 10001010 11011 01011101 1011111 111011 1101111 1111101 10010001 101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 478 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on June 03, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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