Analysis of A Material World
Born into a world,
not knowing.
Infantile, immature
and surroundings strange.
Curiously exciting,
before our very eyes,
all is unfurled.
Quickly we learn,
how to be safe.
From danger,
instinctively we fight
or know the difference,
to take flight.
Our world,
through our eyes,
challenging,
hostile,
not knowing what,
in wait is beset
and lies.
Man is the maker of what is.
Destruction versus construction.
Complex or simplistic with the ability
to change and accept change.
A world substantive
and not just materialistic.
Scheme | ABXCBDA XXXEXE ADBXXXD XXXCXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 110 10001 00101 1000010 0110101 1101 1011 1111 110 010011 110100 111 101 1101 100 10 1101 01101 01 11010111 01010010 101010100100 110011 01100 01100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 495 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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