Analysis of Today's holidays
David Linsday 1986 (Long beach)
Buy only name brands
Sex sells
Screw your world view
Everything else pales
Rude as hell
When did society go off the rails?
You read about it
Old wives tales
The collapse of modern man
Pull back the veil
Obese, just buy and eat
Land of the sloth
Nothing else matters
Who cares if today you're sadder
Just par for the course
Last recourse
Weed and Adderall
Gotta pop em all
I'm remiss
Ridiculous how we're use to this
Dying to fall for it
A Bandaid over it
Eat, sleep, work, spend
When will it all end?
With baited breath I wait
For righteousness to descend
| Scheme | ABCDEDFDGHIJKLMMENOOFFPPQP |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 11 1111 1011 111 1101001101 11011 111 0011101 1101 011101 1101 10110 11101110 11101 110 101 10111 101 010011111 101111 010101 1111 11111 110111 1100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 532 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 26 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 441 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
About this poem
The holidays have become of breeding ground of gluttony and greed, only seeming to calm just so long as the holidays are occurring. The point of the holidays lost, this is what I see.
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Written on November 06, 2021
Submitted by Xiranthius on November 06, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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