Analysis of LET'S PRAY THE HUNGER AWAY



Praying Bill
Billing it on us .
You hungry?
Let's pray on it.
You thirsty?
Drink a word of faith.
Let's import some pulpiteers.
And let your taxes buy us salvation.

Rags to riches.
The chicken seller says.
Blunt courage.
The freedom fighter purports .
Let's relate to the majority.
And they will forget our transgressions.
We can Transgress more.

Let's grab some lands.
Let's empty the coffers .
And make the ‘first family ’ the villains.
Let's entrench tribalism.
Back to the Ivory Baton Regime.
The treasurer and the administrator now at the helm.

The masses need theatrics.
Which gimmicks do we use?
Let's employ some influencers.
Now the youths are wooed.
Let's nominate the incompetent auntie .
And gender parity  illlusioned.
And the masses will at the end shout
Can I get an encore!


Scheme XABCBXAX XXXXBDE XXDXXX XXAXBCXE
Poetic Form
Metre 101 10111 110 1111 110 10111 10111 0111011010 1110 010101 110 010101 101100100 0110110010 11011 1111 110010 0101100010 101100 1101000101 01000001001101 010110 110111 10111 10111 11000010010 0101001 001011011 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 801
Words 163
Sentences 28
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 7, 6, 8
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 154
Words per stanza (avg) 34

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Submitted by Banbeast on February 23, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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