Analysis of Orphan On The Street
I awoke with an enchanting smile in the morning on a mattress of painted silver,
the orphan in the street wiped his face of obnoxious dirt.
I entered my Spanish lavatory to expurgate my bowels,
the orphan in the street sat down in wild grass emanating from fields of paddy.
I brushed my teeth with satiny floss and dental paste,
the orphan in the street used a brittle neem stick to polish his worn enamel.
I washed my face with perfumed soap and lascivious cream,
the orphan on the street used a curry of mud to clean streaks of blotted dirt.
I draped my persona with garments of rich denim blended with flocculent thread,
the orphan on the street wore a soiled jute sack hanging like a scarecrow on his body.
I slipped my dainty toes in cushioned interiors of my velvet shoes,
the orphan on the street left his chapped bohemian feet bare.
I dedicated gargantuan amounts of time trimming my bushy whiskers,
the orphan on the street was obsessed chopping slices of tree lumber.
I exited for office; in the royal camouflage of my honey brown Mercedes,
the orphan in the street traversed kilometers in the naked Sun; to reach the mill he worked in.
I worked in an refrigerated ambience juxtaposed with abundant flora,
the orphan in the street perspired in sweltering currents of heat.
I came back home before dusk strangulated light,
the orphan on the street arrived a few minutes past midnight.
I then thought I had seen enough of agony; distressing discrimination,
took the orphan in the street within the candid comfort of my arms,
fed him with sumptuous food; after scrubbing his silhouette with tons of carbolic,
made him sleep in furry quilts beside me;
with mesmerizing notes of music diffusing from the CD systems.
He slept like an untamed horse all night; and when he got up in the morning; there were tears dribbling down his soft cheek,
he hadn't words to express his gratitude; the spontaneity of love he had; for the first time in his life received.
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| Metre | 1011101010010101011010 01000111110101 11011010011110 0100011101110011110 11111110101 01000110101111011010 11111011001001 0101011010111111101 111010110111010111 010101101111010101110 111101010010011101 010101111010011 11000010001111011010 01010110110101110 110011000101011101010 01000110010001011101110 1101010010001101010 010001101001011 111101111 01010101011011 1111110111000100010 10100010101010111 11110110101011111 1110101011 11001110010101110 111111110111100101011001111 1101101110001001111101101101 |
| Characters | 1,950 |
| Words | 347 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 12 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 27 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 58 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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