Analysis of Candy Land
The swing that breaks the hanging bag
Sends candy bouncing all around:
The children rush, and pushing fuss,
And knock each other to the ground.
No thoughts of others—only self—
Where skewed desires all abound:
They rush and push and even kick …
For candy they will punch and pound.
The seeking of it hardly stops
When all the revelry and sound
Diminish by the quiet yard
Where some young kid is ‘candy crowned’.
What festers is a bitter taste,
A blight from loss, a wound profound,
‘Til vengeance from ambition breeds
A greed that makes the soul unsound.
But see how now some candy lies
Beside my foot, which none have found?
Note how my lack and little care
Shows peace that inly knows no bound.
Shun selfishness and lusty greed,
For many souls have in them drowned.
Go forth, therefore, and live as free—
A slave to no one’s ‘candy mound’.
Scheme | XAXAXAXA XAXAXAXA XAXAXAXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 11010101 01010101 01110101 11110101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01011101 11010001 01010101 11111101 1110101 01110101 11010101 01110101 11111101 01111111 11110101 1111111 11000101 11011011 1110111 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 864 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
About this poem
A diatribe against materialism and the brutal enterprise of ambition it breeds, this poem is a humble way of acknowledging that a freer and more peaceful way of life is possible.
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