Analysis of The Rape
Night shrinks into day
The sun pummelling door
Black turn to gray
The swallowing of the poor
In the blurred light of noon
Under the figment of a moon
The old women were taken
Their brutalized breasts forgotten
The cry fringes the truth
And virtue is exposed meat
The worm eats the root
Where flies dine and fete
What shall she do with rags
Alone? Her shrivelled bags
Is old skin over bone. Vent
Not when the treasure is spent.
What then the meaning
Of post modern governments
That strip all our saving
To fund their impediments
Trust funds and pensions taken
Too late we are left forsaken
Battered, bruised, bleeding
The innocent flesshed jarred, torn
No place for forgiving
Is left in the dimlighted morn
Hobbled and afraid
The sun stumbles over the glade
We shrink too into night
Trembling at the sound of light
Scheme | AXAXBBCC XXXXDDEE FGFGCC FHFHIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011 0111 1111 0100101 001111 10010101 0110010 1101010 011001 0101011 01101 11101 111111 01011 1111011 1101011 11010 1110100 1111010 1110100 1101010 11111010 10110 0100111 111010 110011 10001 01101001 111011 10010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 784 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on July 07, 2013
Modified on April 16, 2023
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