Analysis of Benighted
The chosen
tone deaf
to their fortune
Musicians
their heads
in the sand
The roadies
eat pizza
still frozen
While Angels
play bass
in the band
Indulgence
the pick
on their fretboard
Entranced
by the lure
of the bong
Benighted
the riffs
play without them
Not going
or coming
— just gone
(The New Room: March, 2024)
| Scheme | AXA BXC BXA XXC XXC XXX XXX DDX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (76%) |
| Metre | 010 11 1110 010 11 001 01 110 110 110 11 001 010 01 111 01 101 101 010 01 1011 110 110 11 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 325 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 10 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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