Analysis of Urban Parasite
I walk out of the kitchen
I refuse to let the shiny grotesque bodies attack my sober judgment.
I am motionless while planning my escape
Scratch scratch scurry scurry
I have been invaded
I am not alone.
No one must know my nightmare
Their collective minds assault my insecurities.
As I squash one I am reminded of my power
I see ten more
They besiege my space and mocked my tranquility.
No one can know
I must fight this war
Alone.
I run into the bathroom
I feel 1 million eyes watching me
I must escape.
I see them laugh and taunt my slow descent into madness.
Who will save me from these urban parasites?
I spray and spray
Scrub and clean
Emits deadly toxins into the air
To lose a war I cannot win
To my industrialized acclimated for
The Cockroach.
Scheme | XX ABXC DXXEBXEC XBAXX XXDXEX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 1111010 1011101001100111010 11100110101 111010 111010 11101 111111 101010110100 1111110101110 1111 101110110100 1111 11111 01 110101 11101101 1101 11110111010110 1111111010 1101 101 0110100101 11011101 1101001001 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 755 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 8, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
This film is about disgusting little things that invade your mind and play games with you
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Written on February 14, 2022
Submitted by lisac.56335 on February 14, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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