Analysis of Good and Evil
I have the aperitif before lunch, you drink a digestif later.
We both share a bottle of wine.
What other ritual can more aptly point to a civilized society?
But there’s a fly in the soup.
We leave the table and go about our business.
One is the executioner, the other a victim;
Alas, we sat at different tables.
We know civility, but we’re not civilized.
The daughter of one’s friend is worthy of respect.
The enemy’s mother is not.
Are we civilized?
Did we dream of the ‘iron lady’ while courting a lady?
Good and evil, instruments of different gods,
Reputed lanes of redemption for each.
Scheme | XXAX XXXB XXBA XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110001011110110 11101011 1101001110110100100 1101001 1101001011010 1100100010010 0111110010 11010010110 010111110101 011011 1110 111101010110010 101010011001 0101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
Civility and civilization, opposite deities.
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Written on June 15, 2022
Submitted by joegagliano on June 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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