Analysis of Embryos are People”



People—embryos are people,
The unlikeliest people in the world,
They’re children,
Just like other children,
Although, once they were set aside,
Now Alabama’s pride,
Makes them more like children than children.

Judges are very special people,
Their decisions can agitate the world.
With one ruling,
One very special ruling,
A judge says it is his role,
To save an embryo’s soul:
In a judicial first,
Reversed the notion they’re not people,

Embryos are people:
The unlikeliest people in the world.


Scheme aBccddc abeeffxa aB
Poetic Form
Metre 1010110 0110001 110 111010 1110101 111 111110110 101101010 101011001 1110 1101010 0111111 111101 000101 010101110 10110 0110001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 508
Words 98
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 8, 2
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 131
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

A parody lyric derived from the song “People” [Jule Styne, music; Bob Merrill, lyrics; from their 1964 Broadway musical Funny Girl]

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Submitted by ditty-0.dower on February 25, 2024

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