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 |
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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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