Analysis of Profane
Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)
The wise are buried with the foolish,
the sacred with the profane.
Our daily diet of random shit,
treats treasure and trash the same
A few nuggets of wisdom,
deserving of assimilation,
swamped by medias bombardment
of vacuous stimulation..
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 011101010 0101001 1010101101 1100101 0110110 01010010 111010 1100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
That intelligence is being drowned in a sea of distraction
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