Analysis of Adulation
Who earns your adulation?
Who earns your deep respect?
"Prophets have great honor" that often is suspect.
To whom do you give homage?
To whom do you give praise?
"Idols have feet of clay" that crumble with a gaze.
Who are your celebrities?
Who are your royalty?
Stars and monarchs that sham deserve no loyalty.
What is your symbolic form?
What is your "golden calf?"
Images have semblance that decline to a gaffe.
Who is your fallacious god?
Who is your sacred cow?
Things that we overstate we shortly disavow.
To whom do you give deference?
To whom do you give awe?
Icons have shortcomings that can "stick in your craw."
Scheme | ABBCDDEFFGHHIJJKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 111101 101110110101 1111110 111111 101111110101 1110100 111100 10111011100 1110101 111101 100110101101 1110101 111101 1111011001 11111100 111111 1110111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 485 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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