Analysis of ...Leaving New York?
Behold the fleeting glamour of NYC,
Adorned in debris that's PPE*.
Look left or right, glance up or down,
Sights are enough to make most frown.
A law was passed to ban some plastics,
Oafs clapped like seals, deemed it fantastic.
Yet those same dolts who're triple covered,
By wind blown masks not at all bothered.
Gloves and pads, putrid face covers,
That trash the streets, flow down gutters.
They skip and roll down continental shelf,
And down the gullet of Kraken himself.
Tree huggers screech of global warming,
Whilst PPE-swarms in oceans churning,
Signaling virtue, waltz to commune's beat,
While garbage drowns city's streets.
This fetid garb is the town's tinsel,
Refuse to wear, risk being canceled.
Won't give you food, expel from sight,
Arrested are naughty who put up a fight.
The power hungry on a rule decided,
Beware all those who won't abide by it.
Wear ruling class's beastly stamp,
Those who obey, munch at their camp.
Oh, better get your n'teenth booster,
Next you'll be made to squawk like rooster,
Or perhaps get your nethers swabbed,
Compliant don't mind, being wrongly rubbed.
New York is by far not the only place,
Where repressions liberty replaced.
Flights out of dirt and bondage started,
To freer pastures overtaxed departed.
Some stay reclaiming liberties lost,
Yet those who struggle pay high cost.
Resistance starts in hearts and minds,
And sparks of logic, helps courage to find.
*Personal Protective Equipment
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Metre | 010101011 0100111 11111111 11011111 011111110 111111010 1111101010 111111110 10110110 11011110 110110101 010101101 11111010 11101010 100101111 1101101 110110110 011111010 11110111 01011011101 0101010110 0111110111 1101011 11011111 11011110 111111110 10111101 0101110101 1111110101 10101001 111101010 1101001010 110101001 11110111 01010101 0111011011 100010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,456 |
Words | 286 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on January 31, 2022
Submitted by RosenkrantzA on February 01, 2022
Modified by RosenkrantzA on February 01, 2022
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