Analysis of The staus quo
The world is not all flowers and sunshine
At least not for me
I view it as a dismal and foreboding place
Filled with lies and falsehoods
Broken promises
And unseen dangers
I do not see the good side of man
I see a once great creature
Broken and lost
A great empire
Now an empty shell
A hopeful pursuit
Now a laughable tragedy
I see the powers that be
Corrupted and misguided in their efforts
I don’t see the good of the human race
Its efforts at progress escape me
As does the existence of man
The purpose of trying
Seems fruitless to me
I do not see evolution
I only see the need for
Revolution
They say insanity
Is doing the same thing over and over
And expecting different results
If this is true
Then can someone explain…
The status quo
Eric (and sometimes not)
Scheme | XABXXX CDX DX XA AX BA CXA EXE ADX XX X X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 011111001 11111 111101000101 11101 10100 00110 111101111 1101110 1001 01100 11101 01001 10100100 1101011 01000100110 1110110101 11011011 11001011 010110 11011 1111010 1101011 010 110100 11001110010 001010001 1111 11101 0101 100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 780 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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