Analysis of Pointed fingers in the dark
Sorry my view, a tag of cat eats dog situation and vice versa
Who should be what and when?
I stood in wonder and cogitate
While mourning in my search for the truth.
Pupils say, they, they, they teach us lie
And teachers say this made us what we are
Do we learn towards childhood or pupil hood?
Or do we teach towards adulthood or teacher hood?
Pupils cannot and don’t want to attend
So teachers cannot and will not attend
Teachers say pupils are never attentive nor punctual
Pupils say teachers are not punctual, oh! a mirror display response.
Who is in pursued for assistance or help?
Often schools are disrupted
Pupils pointing teachers with their little fingers
Teachers pointing pupils with their huge fingers
Who should be learning?
Who should wait to be found to be helped?
I realized all are sick, But ….
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111110100110 111101 1101000 110011101 101111111 0101111111 1110111101 111101011101 1010011101 1101001101 101101100101100 101101110010100101 11001101011 1011010 101010111010 10101011110 11110 111111111 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 798 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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