Analysis of Head Case Dismissed
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
Secure in your convictions
Of what you think I haven't said
Closing arguments with juries
Made up of voices in your head
If rib cages are prison bars
I won't be locked inside of you
It's already overcrowded
There isn't room in there for two
Thank you for the sweet subpoena
To this court room full of you
I brought my own interpreter
I don't speak kangaroo
You looked at me through prison bars
Afraid of being caught
So you brought me up on charges
Of being who I'm not
The jury is sequestered
Jurisprudence is at risk
Return in robes to chambers, dear
Head case, summarily dismissed
You enter into the courtroom
We all rise for the shining star
They say you've never lost a case
Charged with being who you are Executioners wear masks
I've seen behind the one you wear
I saw you in your dressing room
You didn't know that I was there
The evidence was tampered with
The witnesses have all been kissed
Your perjurers sequestered by
Your chemical lobotomist
Your bailiff, he has posted bond
Threw away the skeleton key
You're a prisoner to fear, my dear
The truth will set you free
The jury is sequestered
Jurisprudence is at risk
Return in robes to chambers, dear
Head case, summarily dismissed
© John Kennan April 2015
Scheme | xaxabcxc xcxcbdxd EFGH ixxxjij xhxaxkgk EFGH x |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 0101010 11111101 10100110 11110011 11101101 11110111 1010100 11010111 11101010 1111111 11110100 11101 11111101 011101 11111110 110111 0101010 010111 01011101 11010001 1100101 11110101 11110101 1110111010011 11010111 11101101 11011111 01001101 01001111 110101 11001 11011101 10101001 101001111 011111 0101010 010111 01011101 11010001 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,200 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 4, 7, 8, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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