Analysis of SOILED
She walks as if every strength in her is spent,
When she visits the camp that soldiers dwell,
To remember many hands that violates her,
Is to die:
At dusk she strolls, and hopes with a longing for
Crumbs from the master's table that feeds her siblings;
Spoils, happy and praying for another day, that
Combatants will cast a piece to their dogs: but now
She is the piece of bread, ravages; hands plunges,
Into deep ravine, ravishes beauty of a virgin land,
They sense that its water is sweet,
New vine pollutes like spotless diamonds
From cradle to green meadows to dark huts;
On right side of moral virtue, a damsel strays,
With her enchanted beauty;
Where villains walks like vampires,
Here, blending of bravery and fear,
When infants are abused for cure of a virus,
Lost in claws of demons, crush on anvil,
Her dreams haunt her like a game,
Half dead, she remains a piece of bread
To satisfy soldier's incontinence, acts of genocide
Under sunny desert, the deal closes,
Roasts under Darfur's sun: the prize of war and oil?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110010011 1110011101 101010111000 111 11110110101 110101011010 110010101011 010110111111 110111100110 0110111010101 11111011 110111010 110111111 111110100101 1001010 1101110 110110001 110101111010 1011101110 0110101 111010111 1101001001110 1010100110 11011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,081 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 807 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 183 |
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The poem talks about the girl-child abuse and exploitation.
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