Analysis of A Billion Eyes



Silence pierces my mind,
a revolution abandoned in time,
we stand tall to find,
what has not been,
will be achieved by another dream,
Those that arise,
fall like tide, rhythmically
generations pass like
a stream, surge and subside,
my ego serves as a sword,
severing my connection
to the herd, yet individuality
is absurd, a billion eyes
stare up towards the same skies,
as we build a fabric of lies
manufacturing immortality
invites darkness inside - we only
awake again when
 the new revolutionaries arise.


Scheme ABACDEFGHIJFEEEFFKE
Poetic Form
Metre 10111 001001001 11111 1111 110110101 1101 111100 01011 011001 1101101 1001010 1011000100 1010101 1101011 11101011 01000100 011001110 01011 01010001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 490
Words 86
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 407
Words per stanza (avg) 86
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Submitted on May 02, 2012

Modified on March 15, 2023

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