Analysis of Equilibrium

Tony Kruska 1988 (New York)



We're so off balance don't know up from down
The grass in the air and the sky on the ground
If we stand on our feet instead of our head
The world will stay green before it turns red


Scheme ABCC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011111 01001001101 1111101011101 0111101111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 181
Words 39
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Written on May 20, 2022

Submitted by tnykrsk on May 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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