Analysis of The New Slaves
He came on the brink of the negroes ascent to the White House;
A slave of an unusual sort.
He peered,
From the tiny window in the quarter,
At the snow,
Smuddering life,
And felt his predecessors’ woe.
Many, like Stella,
Came to find a groove
But purchased with perjury
Men with desires to excel;
To escape the clutch of privation
And scorn.
Ambitious to become house-wives
With uneducated spouses
And the need for the goodlife.
The unsrupulous requests grow intolerable
And recentments fester and prosper,
While the innocent observe
And absorb this lie.
Words cut like razor
And provoked the unthinkable;
Children, like chains,
And immigration shackles
Derailed the contemplations
Of living again.
Scheme | AXXBCDC XXXXXX XXDEBXX BEXXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011010011011 01110101 11 1010100010 101 11 0111001 10110 11101 1101100 11010101 101011010 01 01010111 1010010 001101 0101101000 0110010 1010001 00111 11110 00100100 1011 001010 0101 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 674 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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