Analysis of The Father, the bastard and the angel



Are you a swindler or a male whore
that does not fail to create many
illegitimates?

Are you a father that lacks morality?
You are better off an incompetent old
fool lacking in fertility.

What kind of man has no sense of chastity
Continues to deliver spawn
At such a great vastness

There is too much luster
In comparison to alcoholism
You are a bastard

You have no sense or care
as to your mannerism
To many women, your ways
are one of vampirism

You drain them to your heart’s content
Without any actual repent
You are the dark horse
That moves about with no remorse

The air is stale.

You are one hell of a red blooded male
No.
The wind is mute
There is a sudden refute

Somehow, someway
A guilty bell begins to ring
and sing at the back of your thoughts
You become eager to feed,
the many that are in need

You are a father, a bastard and an angel


Scheme XAB AXA AXB XCX XCBC DDBB E EXFF XXBGG X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101001011 111110110 1 11010110100 11101101001 11000100 11111111100 01010101 110110 111110 001001100 11010 111111 111100 1101011 1111 11111110 011010001 11011 11011101 0111 1111101101 1 0111 1101001 11 01010111 01101111 1011011 0101101 110100100110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 856
Words 180
Sentences 6
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 1, 4, 5, 1
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 17

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A contemporary poem based on postmodern society today.

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Written on June 06, 2016

Submitted by on July 08, 2023

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Lizbeth Wberg

I am a freelance artist and writer. I studied psychology, sociology and criminology briefly at University and later decided to deter to do a course in broadcasting. After realizing that my career field in life was not actually in media, I decided to pick up on writing short stories from my father who was a budding playwright. Most of my poems are usually set on post modern society today reflecting on artistic imagery and abstraction. more…

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