Analysis of THE MIDDLE MAN
Deng Deng Hoc Yai 1965 (Aweil)
He is the ideal middle man.
And he always has a plan.
Just trust "the man" and feel,
Confident; he'll broker “a deal”.
He dresses well like a dandy,
And like a fashionable lady,
Wears a special perfume.
And likes potage de legume.
Whatever you need - just name it!
Any crime he can easily commit:
Be it bribery, inside trading,
Fraud, laundering - anything!
He has many years of experience.
He does his job with confidence.
He invariably connects people.
For him, nothing is impossible.
He goes between them - back,
And forth - be they black,
White, Caribbean, Indian
Asian, European or African.
He commits a crime here,
And another over there.
He has no conscience.
He acts for convenience.
In return for a professional fee,
He does his job - just like a bee,
Busily promoting corruption,
Hurriedly killing our nation.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ XXGG CCJJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 11001101 011101 110101 10011001 11011010 010100010 101001 01111 1011111 1011110001 111000110 110010 1110110100 11111100 1010000110 111010100 110111 01111 10100100 100101100 101011 0010101 11110 111010 0011001001 11111101 100010010 100101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 835 |
Words | 176 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
The Middle Man was written and published on www.poetry.com in 2013. It is a poem about the role of middle men in promoting corruption in the Republic of South Sudan.
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