This is an analysis of Scorn by Harry Crosby.

You business men with your large desks with your stenographers and your bell-boys and your private telephones I say to you these are the four walls of your cage.
You are tame as canaries with your small bird-brains where lurks the evil worm you are fat from being over-fed you know not the lean wild sunbirds that arrow down paths of fire.…

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Structure

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  • Stanza lengths: 3,
  • Metre: 1101011101100011111110101110111011011 1111010011111101011110101011110111111011010 1011111101011111101000101111101011110101110110110110101101011111111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 3

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