Analysis of Greed



What a joke
What a laugh
People stressing
The overdraft

Oh my
Oh me
How much will it be?

Can I afford to pay?
Another unfair bill today?

Such is the way of the corporate ladder
To send paper with numbers
In order to get fatter

I laugh at your effort
To rob me long distance
Instead I smirk
And return resistance

It seems odd to me
That people fret
Like they’ll ever collect
Is what I bet

I wait for it all to collapse
For corporate America
To fall into relapse

Then look at the greed
And what they have brought
How much blood from a stone?
Is my thought

I love to laugh at these greedy misguided fools
Sending paper numbers
To obedient tools

When they send you pictures of numbers
Send them pictures of money

And laugh, laugh, laugh………..

Eric (and sometimes not)


Scheme XAXX XBB CC DED XFXF BGXG HXH XIXI JEJ EB A X
Poetic Form
Metre 101 101 1010 010 11 11 11111 110111 01001101 11011010010 1110110 0101110 111110 111110 0111 001010 11111 1101 111001 1111 11111101 11000100 110101 11101 01111 111101 111 111111100101 101010 101001 111110110 1110110 0111 100011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 781
Words 162
Sentences 6
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1
Lines Amount 34
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 50
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by EASN on February 11, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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