Analysis of Prejudice
Mindless anomalies!
Bantering comments!
Hurtful dispositions!
Obstructed vision!
Through the ages men have brought
Their teachings to the fore,
They ruminate and contaminate
Posterity all the more.
Angry visages and angrier words,
Poison to the souls,
That lurch and quiver, tremble, teeter,
Stretched to opposite poles!
The natural state exemplifies good,
The opposite engenders hate,
And in the scheme of exposure,
Perchance: Hades gate?
Born without a worry,
Born without a care,
The legacy they will incur
Conspicuous in their forebears!
c. Poetic Universalisms by Lena Smith Carter, 2006.
Scheme | XXXX XABA XCDC XBDB XXDX D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100100 10010 10010 01010 1010111 110101 1100010 0100101 10101001 10101 110101010 111001 010010101 01001001 00011010 01101 101010 10101 01001101 0100011 10101110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 573 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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