Analysis of What have we done
Pearl L Kalert 1970 (Illinois)
I sit and watch the world go by,
And wonder what have we done?
What have we done to the world?
Our children don't go outside to play or won't.
They would rather stay inside and play videogames.
Our parents can't cook,
They would rather go through drive thru.
And we wonder why we are all over weight.
Door dash will bring it to us, so we don't have to leave the house.
No one cares about the country,
What happened to: by the people, for the people, of the people?
We've forgotten what that means.
No cares about their neighbors, all they care about is themselves and what's in it for me.
So, I ask again, what have we done?
Scheme | ABCDEFGHEIJEIB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 0101111 1111101 101011111111 1110101011 101011 11101111 01101111101 111111111111101 11101010 1101101010101010 1010111 110111011101101010111 111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 624 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
About this poem
Just something I wrote.
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