Analysis of Death of Marilyn Monroe

Leonard Wilson 1948 (Washington state)



+The Death of Marilyn Monroe+
         (Norma Jeane Baker)

A star of the greatest magnitude
A fantasy made real
Deep inside, where no-one saw
Norma's pain was hers  to feel

In the spring of nineteen-sixty-four
 her loves were widely known
Jack and Bobby took their turns
Then left her quite alone

Norma felt abandoned
She said what she would do
Monday she would call the press
The Kennedys
would hear the news

That call was never made
Her bed would be her final stage
Marilyn would bring down not
The royal court of Camelot

Her lifeless body,
filled with drugs
The pills were by her side
No capsules in
her stomach, found
She swallowed nothing...  
still, she died

The investigating officer
who saw her body, so pristine
said these words for all to hear

"The most obviously stage death
I have ever seen!"
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
No Kennedy was ever investigated. The cover-up machine went into full swing, immediately.

Marilyn announced to her friends on Sunday that Monday she would tell the press all about her affairs with the Kennedys and blow the lid off the scandel.

She was found dead the next morning. The Kennedy machine got busy selling the suicide story. It was gobbled up like breakfast because nobody wanted to believe the beloved Kennedy Brothers could be involved in murdering the dream.


Scheme XA XBXB XCXC XXXXX XXDD EXFXXXF AGX XG E B X
Poetic Form
Metre 01110001 10110 01101010 010011 1011111 111011 001111101 010101 1010111 110101 101010 111111 1011101 0100 1101 111101 01110101 1001111 0101110 01010 111 010101 1100 0101 11010 111 00100100 11010110 1111111 01100011 11101 1 110011001000101011011101000 100011011111011101101001101000101101 1111011001000111010010101110111001110101001100101101010001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,321
Words 239
Sentences 8
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 4, 5, 4, 7, 3, 4, 1, 1
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

Ever body who was involved with dealing with her dead body knew it was murder.b It was obvious.

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Leonard Wilson

I used to write songs for a rock band in California. I write poems, lyrics, opinion And noir crime stories set in the 40s, 30s and 20s. more…

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