Analysis of Slum Cell
Dreary days, stuffy air,
in a chicken coop.
Surrounded everywhere,
the air as fresh as a used rag,
people stuffed like slag in a gutter.
Do they even live ?
Seem like addicted zombies
walking the endless road,
the endless ‘struggle’
in hope to struggle no more.
Like a chicken walking through fire,
in hope of a different future.
They’re not alive,
they don’t live.
No dust kicked up,
if they seize to breathe,
no matter how much they give.
The primordial soup of suffering
within this moving metal tube.
Bitter bickering folk, the third estate.
In a system designed to keep them there,
“Suffer here, good peasant. Suffer some more, maybe you’ll be able to afford a car and
suffer on the roads for another hundred years”
“In a big maze you’ll run, dear members of the third estate, running for the nonexistent exit, keep running along, little mare”
Keep running, keep suffering,
be a contributing citizen.
You’ll die muttering
“I’ve suffered, when will I get to live?”
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 00101 01010 01111011 101110010 11101 1101010 100101 01010 0111011 101010110 011010010 1101 111 1111 11111 1101111 0010011100 01110101 1010010101 0010011111 1011101011101110101010 101011010101 0011111101010110100101011001101 1101100 100100100 11100 110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,008 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 5, 6, 1, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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