Analysis of Cell Phones



Cell phones are pandemic, intruding in our lives.
They're in the malls, on the streets,
in theaters and dives.

Much of the inattention, root cause of accidents,
is traced to mindless driving
and cell phone incidents.

People speak to those unseen in vacuums, audible.
Unaware of the surrounds
they remain culpable.

Overheard conversation is ineluctable.
Private matters are voiced in
constant cell phone babble.

Cell phones are ubiquitous and inescapable.
Claptrap wireless chatter
appears unshakable.


Scheme XXX AXA BXB BXB BXB
Poetic Form
Metre 1110100100101 1001101 010001 1100010111100 1111010 011100 1011101010100 011001 101100 10101011 1010110 101110 111010000100 11010 010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 486
Words 75
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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