Analysis of Burning Down The Grouch



Tired of it and fed up.
With a tolerating tantrums.
Thrown by grown up spoiled men and women.
Unsatisfied by all they've been given.
Defending the leader,
Of their soiled playpen.
Pretending it not done by them.
But others praying,
Them to disappear in Hurricane winds.

Protesting with wishes and hopes,
To spread their civil unrest of a mess created.
Just for the purpose to project an image,
Of themselves as selected...
As representives of the best there is,
Of life to live their way to have.
Pretentiously fictioned.

While the leader of their pack,
Sit back laughing.
Knowing the doing of this done to do,
Would prevent more excuses created to use...
Fiction to weaponize alibis and told lies.
As effective tools.
To keep the evidence of proof revealed.
That begins to ignite the fire in the eyes,
Of their leader skilled to portray...
Multiple disguises.

Yet...
One disguise this leader can not disguise,
Is a fear of everything claimed to possess...
Will go up in flames,
Worthless to anyone else.
As their leader slouches like the grouch,
To be unseen publicly.
Attempting with noticeable melting charm,
To keep the heat applied to the seat.
Where this picked leader sits,
Observing what had been valued...
Including attention to get to feed an ego.
Burned.
Leaving nothing in return.
But public embarrassment to have it earned.

And...
Some say heard to hear,
Deservingly served is the justice presented!

'How could this happen to us?'

'What are you talking about?
This is not happening to us.
That is happening to him!'

'No.
Those are more deceiving lies,
Told to hear from his critics.
Anyone can see to believe...
What is happening to him,
He did the best he could...
To keep that from happening to us!'

'Anď...that US he refers to is...
Who?'

'Are you blind?!
Himself and the rest of us.
Known to be loyal fans,
Of everything he does to prove...
Just how committed and devoted he is.
And we are too.
To ensure he is pleased by our activities!'

'Oh.
Enjoy the heat.'

'We will.
Many of us are proactive.
And brought along bags of ice.
Just in case.
If our leader needs to calm down and chill,
Out!'


Scheme XXAAXXXBX XCXCDXC XBEXFXXFXD XFXXXXXXGXXHIXI XXC J KJL HFXXLXJ DE XJXXDEX HG MXXXMK
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011 1010010 111111010 010111110 010010 1111 01011111 11010 11010101 01011001 1111001101010 11010110110 1011010 1110111 11111111 11 1010111 1110 1001011111 101101001011 101110011 10101 1101001101 101101010001 11101101 100010 1 1011101101 1011101101 11101 101101 111010101 1101100 01011000101 110101101 111101 01011110 0100101111110 1 1010001 11001001111 0 11111 111010010 1111011 1111001 11110011 1110011 1 1110101 1111110 1011101 1110011 110111 111110011 11110111 1 111 0100111 111101 1101111 11010001011 0111 1011111100100 1 0101 11 10111110 0101111 101 11010111101 1
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,127
Words 459
Sentences 56
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 9, 7, 10, 15, 3, 1, 3, 7, 2, 7, 2, 6
Lines Amount 72
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 135
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Written on November 10, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on November 10, 2023

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