Analysis of THE MIDDLE MAN



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
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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Submitted by DengYai on September 06, 2023

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Deng Deng Hoc Yai

Deng Yai, is a South Sudanese poet. more…

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