Analysis of Percentages
90% of humanity disgusts me
The other 10% I shall never get to thank
Beneath contempt and not worth loathing
The 90% I rank
Absolutely numb at the levels my species can sink
A time for nuclear cleansing
Is worth the effort, I think
Be done with it already
Our species is done
We’ve gone to the depths of depravity
There’s nowhere else to run
Give the world to the animals
Let them have their shot
We have proven over and over
That intelligence
We have not
We still kill
We still pollute
We still lie, cheat and steal
We still devour the world
And do it all with such zeal
We thumb our nose at religion
And believe it doesn’t matter
We gorge ourselves on evil
And let our greed get fatter
I shake my head everyday
And wonder why it’s allowed to continue
I’m afraid of one day
Where I will no longer care
Where the stories of horrific tragedies
Will become easy to bear
I want to leave this world
The way I arrived
Innocent
But sometimes I fear
I might become part of the 90%
Keep the Faith and keep strong
For in this world it’s too easy
To go wrong
Eric (and sometimes not)
Scheme | ABCBDCDAEAEXFGXFXXHIHEGXGJXJKXKIXXXXLAL F |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (28%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 10100011 0101110111 010101110 011 0101101011011 01110010 1101011 1111010 101011 1110110100 11111 10110100 11111 111010010 10100 111 111 1101 111101 1101001 0111111 111011010 0011110 11001110 01101110 1111101 01011011010 101111 1111101 10101010100 1011011 111111 01101 100 10111 1101110 101011 10111110 111 100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,086 |
Words | 210 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 39, 1 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 426 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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