Analysis of Business



Typewriters typing business letters
  to the business world.
Copiers ditto triplicate forms
   to run the written word.
Bosses bossing, but doing nothing-
   it's absurd.
Where do i fit into this plastic molded world?

A thousand assembly workers forget they have hands
   (as workers watch the machines take command).
And upstairs executives make vacation plans.
As a million dollars float around in the wind,
only to fall into the hands of the taxman.

It's a plastic pick me up.
     a pill for your worries.
     a bill for your wallet.
     a kill on your paycheck.

Where do I fall into this
   corporate plan?
How do I call myself,
   of even feel like a man?
Is it that I'm the only one
   who wonders who I am?
Or could it be I'm another part
   of I.B.M.?


Scheme XAXBXBA XXXXC XXXX XCXCCDXD
Poetic Form
Metre 10101010 10101 100101001 110101 10111010 101 111101110101 0100101001111 1101001101 001010010101 101010101001 10110101101 1010111 011110 011110 01111 1111011 1001 11111 1101101 11110101 110111 111110101 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 743
Words 136
Sentences 18
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 7, 5, 4, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 30, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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