Analysis of View from my Roof
it looks insignificant, this threatened lake
lined with so many wooden houses
topped with corrugated sheets
overheated and decaying
unsteady on their stilts
in mosquito clouds
they look pretty shiny green
the floating fields of watercress
that almost closes the stretch of water
a little further into the horizon,
where dirty money reigns and rules
behind heavily guarded gates
daylight is banned vigorously
and greed beats the mind,
against wonderful plans,
they decided to fill it up
displaced lives soon will color
the assigned encampments red
where nothing was settled
power determines their death
| Scheme | XXXXXX XXA XXXXXXX AXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (50%) |
| Metre | 1101001101 111101010 111001 1000010 010111 00101 1110101 0101110 111001110 01010010010 11010101 01100101 1111000 01101 011001 1101111 0111110 0010101 110110 1001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 588 |
| Words | 94 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 7, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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