Analysis of Walking Backwards
If humans on land started to abruptly walk backwards,
with their eyes focused towards empty spaces in the front,
they would inadvertently lose their balance tumbling like a pack of cards,
on the obdurate surface of muddy ground.
If cars powered with speed guns traversed backwards,
monumental elevations of buildings would seem fading in oblivion,
it would be eternity before one reached the place of work,
there would be embarrassing accidents at all quarters,
rendering the traffic in disdainful jeopardy.
If thoroughbred stallions galloped backwards,
execute insane behavior while carrying their possessors,
their masters would whip them black and blue,
for not obeying stringent instructions even after consuming with relish,
fresh tendrils of red radish with spicy leaves of coriander.
If saline waves of the ocean receded backwards with outrageous bursts of wind,
the sand on shores would die in parched starvation,
fishes would find it painstakingly cumbersome to swim,
there would be no ships sailing on the erratic persona of the sky blue sea.
If slender needles of the tower clock ticked backwards,
minutes, hours, days would simply fail to proceed,
the youth would exist in resplendent exuberance for decades to come,
all decayed and old would fail to wither, staying alive for times immemorial,
and there wouldn't be a fresh soul born for centuries to be confronted.
Scheme | AXXX ABXXC AAXXX XBXC AXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101010110 11110011010001 110100111010010111 10100101101 11101111010 010010110111000100 111010001110111 11101001001110 1000100010100 1101101010 1001010110011 110111101 11010100101010010110 11111011011010 10111010010101010111 01111101010 1011110010011 11111101001001010111 1101010101110 101011101101 011010010010010111 10101111101001110100 011010111110011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,376 |
Words | 219 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 5, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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