Analysis of THE MAESTRO
The Maestro leads the devil's band
As they play the Death March song,
As people slowly start to die
The deadly chorus keeps right on.
He leads them in a song of woe
A song that brings you down,
A song to spread chaos about
Mayhem and murder going around.
He makes them play a song of death
Which very few can survive,
He leaves many deaths in his wake,
And very few left alive.
The Maestro leads an orchestra
In a hideous moaning wail,
Very few can stay completely sane
And only then with great travail.
He leads them in a marching song
That leads the whole world to battle,
And even those who are pacifists
March after him like cattle.
He leads them in a song of plague
And all the world gets ill,
He leads them in a song of madness
Just for a deranged thrill.
The maestro leads his orchestra
In a loathsome dirge,
Thousands are driven to madness
And millions to the very verge.
He leads them in a lonely song
And all the people cry,
He leads them in a song of hate
And many thousands die.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XABX XXXX XCXC DEXE AFXF XGHG DIHI ABXB XXD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01010101 1110111 11010111 01010111 11100111 011111 01111001 10101001 11110111 1101101 11101011 0101101 01011100 00100101 101110101 01011101 11100101 11011110 010111100 1101110 11100111 010111 111001110 110011 01011100 00101 10110110 01010101 11100101 010101 11100111 010101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,028 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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The Maestro leads the devil's band As they play the Death March song,
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Written on July 27, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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