Analysis of Hala Bira!
Painted faces hide collective grimace,
Humiliation, hunger and pain,
A daily fare in their burdened existence;
But the festive antiphon kept resounding,
Hala Bira!
In articulated primordial scream
Bare feet stomping dusty pavements
To the beat of poorly constructed drums
With all their breaths a chorused cry
Hala Bira!
Prodding into numbness exhausted souls
Searching for relief in hypnotic mantra
Of a well rehearsed festive antiphon
Hala Bira!
The noisy procession left no
Impressions of their intentions,
But frustrations and rage found a voice;
Their feet stomping dusty pavements
To the beat of the festive antiphon
Hala Bira!
Scheme | abcdEfgheEiejEklmgjE |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1010101010 00101001 01010110010 1010101010 11 0010001001 11101010 1011100101 1111011 11 1001100101 10101001010 101011010 11 01001011 01011010 101001101 11101010 101101010 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 525 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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