Analysis of The Recycled Human



Tiny pieces of each of us are always breaking down,
after every hardship in our lives.
Small pieces of our soul snatched away from us,
taken forever and put into the dust bin.

Garbage is what we have become,
but does there hope remain,
for the recycled human,
for that of all those tiny little pieces created,
of hearts and souls and brains,
that have been broken by pain.

Tiny fragments of imagination and culture,
obducted from our bodies like a vulture snatching at it's prey.
Puny lumps just caught away like nothing,
like they were nothing to anyone,
straight into the dust bin.

Garbage is what we have become,
but does there hope remain,
for the recycled human,
for that, of all those tiny little pieces created,
of imagination and culture and souls,
that have been broken by force.

Insignificant remnants of our past lives,
of our sights and smells,
skinned from our bare bodies.
Minute slivers scratched from our backs,
and thrown in to the dust bin.

Garbage is what we have become,
but does there hope remain,
for the recycled human,
for that, of all those tiny little pieces created,
of skin and backs and souls,
that have been taken and left in anguish.


Scheme xaxb CDEFxd xxxeb CDEFgx axxxb CDEFgx
Poetic Form
Metre 1010111111101 10100100101 110110110111 100100101011 10111101 111101 1001010 11111101010010 110101 1111011 101010010010 111010101010111 1011101110 11010110 101011 10111101 111101 1001010 11111101010010 1001001001 1111011 01001011011 110101 1110110 101011101 0101011 10111101 111101 1001010 11111101010010 110101 1111001010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,133
Words 207
Sentences 10
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 154
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on January 04, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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