Analysis of Pedestrian traffic
David Linsday 1986 (Long beach)
Once again, it's that time of year;
When human decency,
Gets shoved to the rear.
All the wrong people in your ear,
Run over by those in fifth gear.
Cutting you off,
They swear, snear, and scoff.
Flocking to sales like pigs,
Fiending for their troughs.
Trampling on themselves,
Clearing out the shelves,
Packing the stores and malls,
Laughing when someone falls;
Traffic on the "I-whine"!
Heaven forbid you stand in line.
Will the rest make it to work on time?
Inconvenienced, and out of sorts
The grinches and humbugs,
Look down their noses, derisive snorts.
Flailing through human traffic
The holidays have become tragic.
Scheme | ABACADDEFGGHHIIJKBKLL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 110100 11101 10110011 11011011 1011 11101 101111 1111 10101 10101 100101 10111 101011 10011101 101111111 0100111 0101 111100101 1011010 01010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
About this poem
With the way that the last few years have gone, you'd think that people would be a bit different during these holidays. Doesn't seem like it.
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