Analysis of Perfect Lies
Perfection is a lie and curse
We struggle with images we’ve cast
Only to live and die and die as we live.
I find myself asking a question.
Do we truly live as we strive for this lie?
Or, are we just biding time? Tick. Tock.
Humanity is flawed, perfection impossible.
An unobtainable goal is destined for failure
Yet, here I still find myself asking
What mask do I wear? What story do I tell?
What do YOU think as you read these words.
| Scheme | XXXXXX XXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010101 110110011 10110101111 11110010 11101111111 111110111 0100110100100 101001110110 11111110 11111110111 111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 443 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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The impossibility of perfection…
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