Analysis of What Conscience Is To Shame
Joplin was to Southern Comfort,
what Hendrix was to smack
Morrison was to masquerade,
what Dylan never lacks
Woodstock was to 69,’
what music was to rhyme
Saigon was to those who stayed,
what Auschwitz now reminds
Kennedy was to hopes and dreams,
what nightmares were to some
Castro was to leftist thugs,
what cymbals are to drums
Kissinger was to Nixon
an Appian Way to roam
Dr. King to civil rights,
what kings are to their thrones
Walter Cronkite was to news,
what context was to fact
Altar boys were to their Priests,
what pretzels are to snacks
58,000 were to die,
what a wall was to proclaim
58,000 were to all
—what conscience is to shame
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
| Scheme | XXAB XXAX XXXX XXXB XXXB XCXC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 10111010 110111 1001101 110101 111 110111 111111 110101 10011101 11011 1011101 110111 1001110 1100111 111101 111111 101111 110111 1010111 110111 011 1011101 011 110111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 663 |
| Words | 125 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 19, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 09, 2019
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