Analysis of Name your price
Late within a certain night
reflections of a friendship gone astray
weigh heavily upon my thoughts
Unlike you my eyes are not blinded
nor bound by fallacious fantasies
of newfound wealth
Once a solid friend
now seduced by those toxic dollar signs
Andrew Jackson is your new confidant
In reality loneliness
is your constant companion
and self loathing a nagging reminder
of the sincere things tendered to cash
So is there any misery you need to sell
Have you any peace of mind you'd like to buy
Does Andrew Jackson smile in approval
or is it sympathy
does Abe Lincoln reassurances
fill the empty movie theater seat for you
or the backyard barbecue with no attendees
So is there any sorrow you need to sell
have you any happiness you'd like to buy
Bowing down to the green God
what will be the price tag attached to your prayers
ten thousand
twenty thousand
what is the magic number to heal all your life's
dilemmas
I pray that those sunny driven fields of prosperity
shall be drenched by the fierce rains of reality
Then you decide
which is the lesser of two evils
your new money based existence
Or
the sincere things cashed in for its attainment
Name your price
Scheme | XXX XAX XXX XXXX BC XDXXA BC XXEEXX DD XXXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 0101010101 11000111 011111110 111010100 1111 10101 1011110101 101011110 010100 1110010 0110010010 100111011 111101001111 11101111111 1101010010 111100 11100100 101010100111 1011011011 11110101111 11101001111 1011011 11101101111 110 1010 110101011111 010 11111010110100 1111011110 111 110101110 11101010 1 00111011010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,174 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 4, 2, 5, 2, 6, 2, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
Someone watches the effects of what having a substantial amount of money has done to their former friend and they realize only too late what their newfound wealth has cost them
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