Analysis of Towers Of Shame



Academicians …
masticating and
 grinding their ‘truth’
Spewing out
what they would have us swallow
in gagging choking egotism
Regurgitating it back
in the toxic chunder
of a narcissistic reality
Papering the walls
of modern thought
with the bibs of their retching
As they hide within
their ivory towers
—festering in mass

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: September, 2023)


Scheme XXXXXXABXXXAXXX B
Poetic Form
Metre 0010 10 1011 101 1111110 0110100 111 00101 1001010 10001 1101 101111 11101 110010 10001 110010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 379
Words 60
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 15, 1
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 149
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 19, 2023

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