Analysis of Mans destruction
Who is this species that calls himself man,
Proclaiming his own perfection
Spending all his time bringing forth his own destruction,
He spends all his time making it nice,
Another comes along and destroys it
As some sort of holy sacrifice.
This world will turn,
The sands of time will shift,
Mother nature will have the last laugh,
All that man has done will become just another time rift
Scheme | XAABXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1111011011 01011010 1011110111010 111111011 0101010011 11111010 1111 011111 101011011 11111101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 379 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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