Analysis of Plastic Living
clicking on plastic countertops
and maxed out Mastercards
slid into cashiers hands
don't mean so much to me.
asking for my payment plan
while we reassure each other
of something that will never happen
doesn't make me bat an eye.
The mortgage on my house
is an aesthetic implication
that disappears with the ignition of paper.
The greenbacks are in the air burning
and I'm eating the embers.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010 01110 10111 111111 1011101 1101110 110111010 1011111 010111 11010010 10110010110 01100110 0110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 451 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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