Analysis of Vae Victis
Nothing so expressive an act of man
Is as blatantly stupid like it is,
That it is--on your face...
Suppressed somehow by its acceptance
As "normal" in the whole planet.
Marked for death, it exists dying
To come to light and--by federal mandate
Recognized for what it truly is--
The most lethal way man has ever devised
Against himself that (as a matter of fact)
Has millions reduced to starkly vain ashes.
There is a warning, so scary (the reason
Why I can't make myself pick and--light
Up a stick), it is--by design made
Plain and simple, yet shockingly still
Ignored--in the name of relish? Or
Did someone really, really say--in the name
Of growing up? To its victims (they
Really are slaves), the "vanquished,"
Is the war lost even before it is waged?
A serving of "cold turkey" is on the table.
Scheme | ABCDEFGBHIJKLMNOPQRST |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101111 1110010111 111111 01111010 11000110 11110110 1111011001 10111101 01101111001 01011101011 11001110110 11010110010 11111101 101111011 101011001 010011101 1110101001 110111101 1011010 10111001111 010111011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 778 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 612 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 143 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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