Analysis of To Be Hanged Till Death
Knotted chords of jute dangle from ceiling,
with large throat sized loop hole,
engulfed in perennial pitch darkness,
freezing cold bare stone walls,
a battalion of mosquitoes hovering around,
bone skeletons partially stuck to floor,
ghastly designs portraying execution,
clouds of dirt, with a backdrop of blood,
the ambience was complete with long iron lever,
compressible at instants of death command.
the courtroom was packed with audience,
uniformed guards, fool proof security,
black coated lawyers, bespectacled judge,
the murderer was in a sandalwood kiosk,
tears oozing from eyes, lips painted with fresh blood,
a volley of arguments followed pursuit,
law professionals displayed tact and eloquence,
with the killer being invited to dilapidated gallows,
ruthlessly hung, with dark hood covering face,
an aftermath of justice ink printing,
to be hanged till death
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Metre | 1011110110 111111 0100100110 101111 0010101010001 1100100111 1001010010 11110111 0100101111010 1111101 01111100 101110100 1101001001 010010011 11011110111 01011001001 101000110100 1010100101010010 10011111001 110110110 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 869 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 11 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 358 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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