Analysis of Paper Heroes
There are no more heroes in the world
Nobody to look up to anymore
No integrity displayed by anyone
No honor
No loyalty
No honesty
Now it’s all just flash
Lights and glitz
And the latest reality blitz
Nothing of any real substance
Gone are the days of a child’s hero
Long live the reign
Of the digital zero
Media’s royalty
Is the new elite
With piles of cash
And the latest tweet
Rappers and thugs
With bling and bang
Rhyming their way
With the latest slang
What a sad display
From a once great creature
The trading of humanity
For the next glitzy feature
I am sick at the thought
Of the future of my race
Who sold out their souls
For more advertising space
It’s all too funny
To even get mad
I just sit and observe
The next latest fad
Perhaps being of limited existence isn’t so bad
It spares one the continuing freak show of the mad
Eric (and sometimes not)
Scheme | XXXABB CDDX EXE BFCF XGHG HABA XIXI BJXJ JJ X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110001 1111101 1010001110 110 1100 1100 11111 101 0010101 10110110 110110110 1101 1010010 1100 10101 1111 00101 1001 1101 1011 10101 10101 101110 01010100 1011010 111101 1010111 11111 111001 11110 11011 111001 01101 01101100010111 1110010011101 100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 879 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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