Analysis of Culture(Paradise)Lost
gregg connolly 1956 (pennsylvania)
Culture(Paradise) Lost
ditheree-doo and ditheree-dop
sitting in my car at a stop
boom-boom bam, boom-boom-bop
a coupla a white boys flopping at hip-hop
idiots caps turned, doing the gangsta lean
trying to look cool, trying to look mean'
Lost their way, lost their own feng shui
you can't be a brother, with the wrong mother
Lost their culture, lost their class
acting out another's, looking like an ass
truth be told, your culture has grown old
you lost your mojo, you sold your soul
too lazy to reinvent the culture you say you crave
it is you hip-hop boy who put it in the grave
too late now you know not what you want
so you latch onto others, a convenient shunt
blame not others for your profligate ways
you and your friends are in a daze
you have lost your spirit, and have become a shell
you are living a subsistence, you are living in hell
it was you who intoned the proclaiming bell
and it rings your own suicidal death knell
Scheme | XAAA ABBXX CCXX DDXX EEFFFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 11011 10011101 111111 0101110111 10011100101 1011110111 111111110 11101010110 1110111 10101010111 111110111 111101111 11010010101111 111111111001 111111111 111101000101 111011101 10111001 111110010101 11100010111001 11110100101 0111101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 939 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
sitting at a redlight
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Written on April 13, 2022
Submitted by ggsunmoon on April 13, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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