Analysis of The Mozambique Border, A US Soldier and A Personal Victory



“Poacher’s Cave, Dead Cow Camp and The Weary Vegetarian – A Game of Foodchess”

Wherever you try to cross the Mozambique border
You’re faced with one difficulty:
There’s nothing there.

You’d surely expect a passport office or a hut or something:
No, nothing
Blank space.

Ponta do Ouro…
Chimanimani…
Bazaruto…

Somehow, I got across. There and back again Mr. Baggins.

That’s why I call myself a US Soldier –
I had to be my own passport.
And, thus, morally equipped Homer.

It’s a similar moral sentence to dietary concerns and animal rights:
To cross a border where none exists Mozambique.


Scheme A BCX DDA BXC A BXB AX
Poetic Form
Metre 101111001001000111 010111100110 11111000 1101 110010110101110 110 11 111 1 1 1110110101101 111110110 1111111 011000110 10100101011000101001 11010110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 620
Words 102
Sentences 10
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 3, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by speakalittlefr on April 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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