Analysis of Frail Fence



Frail fence wakes up to rain and sand,
Morning Breeze hits, it fortifies the land.
Lead paint slowly frets off its hand,
Salty brine tarnishes its ends unmanned.

Couple hours pass, morning does too,
a thunderstorm hits, dulling the sky blue.
then clouds surface, with lightning ensue,
Bam! On the frail fence, the brightest zap spew.
Bad Aim, I guess.

Now the fancy fence, ooh, stood tall,
never fought from rain and massive backwash.
But was placed to subtly enthral,
So flat and smooth, one could play squash.
with good aim.

you see
fence fancy never had to toil,
It was on the soil but never with the soil,
The biggest threat it faced was despoil,
While frail fence would dream of theft to uncoil.
Its wounds.

But lightning brightened frail’s demise,
opened its wood eyes to make him realise,
that the crabs chipping away his thighs,
reveal the beautiful rims that underlie.

That the salt mists which agonised its feet,
Watered plants whose roots tangle and treat,
it with strength from deep underneath,
Share their water on days with excess heat.

It made it realise that it's rusty,
left its ends blunt making it kid-friendly.
Kids now put stickers on frail lively,
replacing paints with a warm-sweet memory.

Fancy fence died the same it began,
While frail fence’s work can not be undone.
Because while one resisted maturing,
the other resisted succumbing,
to suffering.

What I’m trying to say is that

Frail fence’s combat, made it éclat,
never did he fall flat, fighting from a bobcat or a wombat.
During the day he became a cryostat, at night a thermostat,
changing temperatures in a way that,
Made fancy feel it’s a spoiled brat.
It became an acrobat, morphing itself away from bureaucrats,
with all their coup d’etats, and forming his own little microhabitats,
in order to adapt, to any trap that spawn,

Basically, it challenged the challenges drawn,
shouted like a grumpy tennis player to god “come on”,
Now Frail has become the fence god of brawn,
Growth without resistance is an oxymoron.


Scheme AAAA BBBBC DEDEX FGGDGX HCHX IIXI FFFF XXJJJ K AKKKKXCL MLML
Poetic Form Tetractys  (24%)
Metre 11111101 10111101 11101111 10111101 101011011 010110011 111011001 1101101011 1111 10101111 101110101 111110001 11011111 111 11 11010111 11101110101 01011111 111111111 11 11010101 101111111 101100111 0101001101 10111111 101111001 1111101 111011111 11111110 1111101110 111101110 01011011100 101101101 1110111101 0111010010 010010010 1100 11101111 11010111 10111110101101 10011010111010 101000011 11011011 101110100101110 1111101011101 010101110111 10011001001 10101010101111 1110101111 10101011110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 2,034
Words 402
Sentences 20
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 5, 6, 4, 4, 4, 5, 1, 8, 4
Lines Amount 50
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 144
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

The theme of my poem is resistance, and it is an extended metaphor comparing the lives of two fences. It also uses iambic pentameter, as I'm a Shakespeare fan.

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Written on December 11, 2023

Submitted by aggarwalarnav on December 11, 2023

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Arnav Aggarwal

I’m Arnav Aggarwal, and poetry is my way of presenting these scrambled ideas without frontiers. I enjoy writing poetry; however, I'm primarily pursuing mechatronics. more…

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