Analysis of City Faded
Once crown jewel of Our States,
This city never lulled.
Empire's star no longer shines,
Its luster has been dulled.
What generations took to build,
Progressively destroyed,
The shops are boarded, looted, robbed,
Yet no force cared, nor helped.
The sentinels in blue, stood by,
Emasculated, restrained.
The wall protecting people pushed,
Betrayed, maligned, detained.
The vitriol and glee of those,
Who sow chaos throughout,
Dividing further, deepening gash,
And striking out from crowd.
The stains that yellow public streets,
Were vomitous when done,
Are contrived symbols of worth of some,
And yet of others none.
That Blazing hate, a trojan horse,
Was shoved down city's throat.
It brought corruption to the midst,
Incompetence and rot.
This was insidious at first,
Its stench excused by most.
As city crumbled, havoc rained,
And harmony is now lost.
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB XXXX XCXC XXXX XXBX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (43%) |
Metre | 11101101 110101 10011101 110111 1010111 010001 01110101 111111 01000111 010001 01010101 010101 01000111 111001 010101001 010111 01110101 0111 101101111 011101 11010101 111101 11010101 010001 11010011 110111 11010101 0100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 830 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted by RosenkrantzA on August 01, 2020
Modified by RosenkrantzA on August 01, 2020
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