Analysis of Under The Microscope
That bright white light again!
For heaven’s sake, why can’t they ever look
at someone new? A little privacy, perhaps?
(Hey, point that thing the other way!)
But no, it’s regular as cuckoo clockwork.
Every now and then a bath. Some neutral,
clear solution, feels like.
(All the better to see you with, my dear!)
Always at the wrong end of that
silly lens. But that’s all right.
Before too long we’ll all crawl out of here
and sneak a look ourselves.
(I hear the view from Mars is beautiful!)
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 1101111101 11101010001 11110101 111100111 10010101110 101011 1010111111 1101111 1011111 0111111111 0101001 1101111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 491 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 371 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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