Analysis of Landslide
The poor, the weak, all those help who seek~whatever happened..not a sign
We waited and prayed and when it all had proven to be so slow, drew a line
Expected us to cave in, offering trinkets, things which like diamonds'd shine
And than the landslide by design or more, rotten at the very core…it had to happen…
Taciturn, seemingly “tactful” in watchfulness of her gory ways
Aim justifies means or whatever it all involves, entails
Seconds that erode hills at dawn, before the morn and who knows
Constantly losing ground, quicksand and the mire that explodes…
Guess what the whole world we called, when the dice they rolled, triggered the rift
Said won't take long, just a routine, but for their own gain wheat and chuff to sift
And then the end came, not all the same and then the end of it all came...
It was not the jester and the bard, or the soldier wit the shard who did not help
It was …yes you guessed…. the man from the realm of their dawn they'd spawned
~and the whelp~
We called the men from different realms, some cared and many said yes
But the shock of all shocks came that many were not under the name you guessed
It's those in the long robes that did not care,those who collect the proverbial.shekel*
Those who mix pleasure and work and it lead to mene mene tekel….
At the end it was the men of pen and the press, it was the people of letter to readdress
It was the bard of a different kind those who sing about the world and its mess
Those who sang of the Castles of Glass, those who did not want to be the Pretender
Who stood against the weak, those in need to be put asunder and offered their help…
*shekel here is just a symbol for currency
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111110101 1100101111101111101 01011101001011111 010110111101010111110 10100100110101 1101110110101 101011110101011 1001011001101 1101111101111001 111110011111110111 01011110101011111 11101000110101011111 111110110111111 001 1101110011101011 101111111001100111 110011111110101 11110010111111 1011101110011101011011 11011010011110101011 11110101111111110010 11010110111101001011 101110101100 |
Characters | 1,738 |
Words | 318 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 56 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on July 27, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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