Eggs



Carton,
shells.
Cages,
hell.

Eat one,
kill 100.

Stuffed and crammed.
Decaying bodies,
snagged by iron nooses.

Strangled and kicked,
beak-deprived,
rod beaten.

Why did you make me eat it!
I ate one,
killed 100.
My hands are red!
My Karma too.

How could you?
How could I?!
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXX AX XXB XXA XAXXC CX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 252
Words 48
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 3, 3, 5, 2

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