Analysis of 1888
As I prowl the nights of London
the air is diffuse with
heavy despair.
The lamps flicker, casting
their muted glow on
the dirty street.
A cacophony of noise
reverberates against
the windows and boards of
dilapidated buildings,
nearly shanties.
Feline
Canine
Infant
Laughter
Anger
Clatter
Susurrus.
White Noise.
The vermilion feeling
on the brink
inside me
threatens to spill over onto
the broken cobblestones.
I need to cleanse
this city.
My disgust nearly
overwhelms me.
The papers have it
wrong.
Justified cleansing of
wrongful acts is not
‘terrorizing’.
Their own
guilt
is what makes them
afraid.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLLMNNNGGDOPQRSPPPTUIVDWXYZ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101110 011011 1001 011010 11011 0101 0010011 01001 010011 010010 1010 1 1 10 10 10 10 1 11 001010 101 011 10111010 01010 1111 110 10110 011 01011 1 10101 10111 100 11 1 1111 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 567 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 37 |
| Lines Amount | 37 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 488 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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