Analysis of Virtual Reality



Experience that's virtual affect the body and mind.
It simulates the actual: differentiation's blind.

Paintings of good, delicious food generates salivation.
They instigate a hungry mood: appetite satiation.

Travel-logs about foreign lands transport to the very place.
They obviate the maps and plans: imagined steps will retrace.

Common fragrances stimulate associated recall.
Events remembered validate: smell burning leaves during fall.

Sounds and beats of familiar tunes lead back to specific times.
Relive romantic nights in June: excavate subconscious mines.

Photographs of sexy lovers can arouse the libido.
Heightened feelings soon uncover nude bathing at the lido.

The hypothalamus of the brain can make no clear distinction
between "as-if" or "real and main:" identical transmission.


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Poetic Form Couplet 
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Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 780
Words 115
Sentences 13
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 47
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on April 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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