Analysis of Man



Man is a complex being.
He consists of good and evil.
He is full of hate and love.

Man is greedy, yet can be unselfish.
He is a living contradiction
of emotions, beliefs, and morals.
He is full of honesty and lies.
That is why we have war.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101010 10111010 1111101 11101111 11010010 101001010 111110001 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 232
Words 48
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 5
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Anne Brady

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