Analysis of The Lament Of A Fallen Girl .
The Lament Of A Fallen Girl !
I know am a pearl ,
Often in the day time ,
They call me a nasty girl ,
I am delicious food ,
I am drink to mitigate thirst ,
I am a bed to rest ,
I rise when the sun sets in the west .
I have no father as the common girls have ,
My mother fostered me in the dark street ,
I saw her yielding ,serving for food and shelter ,
I felt how for me she did bother !
I do not claim your jilted decency ,
Nor do I have any faith in your word ,
You put trap and catch a bird ,
And make it a roast for your drink ,
You the politicians ,you the corporate ,
You pollute the earth and reset its fate !
My mother was a daughter of a pious farmer ,
Her father trusted a son of an earl ,
And she at her adolescence winged her willow cast ,
The aristocrat swine ,took her away for feast of wine ,
Then she was a sale ,in a brothel ,
Some months before my tragic birth .
I remember my early teen ,
When I was less than fourteen ,
The greedy eyes and swell tongues ,
From my mother's clients upon me hang .
I remember the occasional presses ,
And violent intake of poisonous kisses ,
From society figures and masquerades ,
And still I feel their blacksmith –like deals ,
And see myself pitted on society's anvil .
You are not the first person to hear my tale ,
Many a broken-wing vagabond and tragic hero ,
Many a fate-stricken society's zero ,
With storm and turmoil finger my bell ,
And seek life's Heaven in my living hell .
I am a licensed-leisure with clock-tick hour ,
Often an escort for your travel –trip ,
You furrow my land without putting seed ,
You seek my art in every part ,but not my heart ,
And never you wish to know my feeling ,
I know your demand and service of my dealing .
Ah! I had I had my own sorrow and whim ,
A happy family –home as my dream ,
A faithful husband with children two or three ,
Could I have Sabbath and church-prayer free !
Oh no ! Your time is over ,you may go ,
Do you hear the pimp ? Yes you hear ,
I have half an hour to attend the next client ,
And to repair the ravage , and a beguile smile .
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Metre | 00110101 11101 100011 1110101 110101 1111101 110111 111011001 11110101011 1101010011 110101011010 111111110 1111110100 1111101011 1110101 01101111 1001010100 1010100111 1101010101010 0101001111 01100101011 0010110011111 111010010 11011101 10101101 1111111 0101011 1110100111 10100010010 01001110010 101001001 01111111 011101010010 11101101111 10010110001010 100110010010 11011011 0111001101 110101011110 1010111101 1101101101 1111010011111 0101111110 111010101110 11111111001 0101001111 01010110111 111100111 1111110111 11101111 1111101010110 010101000011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 2,008 |
Words | 385 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 6, 6, 4, 5, 5, 6, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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