Analysis of Zeus Gets Lazy Too
Je Woo Han 2000 (Seoul)
So he got the Cyclops to forge him a new zapper
The Electric Tennis Racket
The Catch-All Bug Annihilator
Dispense divine judgment in one fell sweep
*Hold down the button for full charge*
No need to aim or throw
A single haphazard swing
Send the mortals to be his brother’s problem en masse
He just keeps a list of em’ now
so he can take them all out at once
one day…
Well, he’s keeping track in his head
He too knows he’s grown fat and weak
His old javelins are too heavy
The once sharp points of his shimmering bolts
cartoonishly dulled and rounded into bulbous domes
None of them resemble his notorious stinger
But who questions the king?
They keep making chiseled statues
to replace the derelict and decayed
Each a painful reminder of his fleeting vigor
another stone to pass
Who would dare reflect his modern form?
With all his ugly, bloated proportions
It stung his pride to know
no man could afford enough marble
Who could spur his sedentary spirit?
His “bitchy wife” perhaps,
who still spars with the only muscular part of his body left
His tongue a restless wyrm,
a squirming reminder of his virile past…
He still fences his heart with a parlance of whittled phrase
busy flashing insult after insult
left with no threat but that of his office
Unlike most poor husbands
he need not mutter his retorts in bated breath
For his throne remains unchallenged
and her stones were always cast for free
Mind deafened by insecurity
Ears blind to our prayers
He was used to parrying her accusations
but not fending off eternity’s toll
He would sooner inhabit a painted world
where his humors are better masked
Hung display, young forever
before ever addressing the hypocrisies that frames them
At least,
it would be less embarrassing this way
If Gods can’t die
and all men fade.
Scheme | AXAX XABC XXDX XEXXA BXFAC GHXX XXXGX XXX XXXA EXHX XXAX XDXF |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11101111011 00101010 01111 0101100111 11010111 111111 0100101 1010111101011 11101111 111111111 11 11101011 11111101 1111110 0111111001 1101001101 1110101010010 111001 1110101 11010001 1010010111010 010111 111011101 1111010010 111111 111010110 111110010 110101 1111010100111101 110101 01001011101 11101110101101 1010011001 1111111110 011110 111101010101 11101010 00101111 1110100 111101 111110010 1110111 11100100101 1111101 1011010 011001001111 11 1111010011 1111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,844 |
Words | 350 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
What do the rest of us do, when the men we look to for salvation and leadership are occupied with more trivial matters…
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