Analysis of Our Society



In an age when women and men are becoming
more and more polarized
because of a society that is being up and downsized,
that is seeking for itself through the laws that it continually places
against its peoples in so many cases.
Is it any wonder that so many
feel that they can hardly
make it through from one day to the next
without feeling that somehow, someway they've been hexed
by someone, something that reflects our system of laws?
Our society that is riddled with so many flaws
men are afraid to speak with women,
women are afraid to trust men
and love and love,
once a very treasured experience,
a very treasured something that would last from hither to thence
is vaguely known, let alone able to be expressed or explained
or even lived on such a plane
for all has been commercialized,
everything sized to sell...


Scheme ABBCCDDEBFFGHIJKLMBN
Poetic Form Tetractys  (25%)
Metre 011110011010 10110 011001001110101 1110101101110100010 01110011010 1110101110 111110 111111101 0110111111 1110101101011 100100111011101 110111110 10101111 0101 1010100100 010101011111011 1101101101101101 11011101 1111010 10111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 802
Words 149
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 659
Words per stanza (avg) 149
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Submitted on October 25, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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