Analysis of DEAD State
Allie Smith 1974 (Freetown)
And, in turn; I’m.
For I am a living dead.
I live in a dead state where
Ministers overturn the judiciary.
Why should I live therein?
It’s jeopardy by morons in rule.
Ok. It’s ken to evict morons thereat.
Well! I look up to it therein thereof.
© Allie Smith 07.12.21
| Scheme | ABCDEFBGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 0011 1110101 1100111 1001000100 111101 11001101 111110111 111111011 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 272 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Dictatorship in rule
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Written on July 12, 2021
Submitted by thuwa on January 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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