Analysis of The Best Of The Worst



Who knew these days could not compare,
To those times long gone.
Now reminisced as the good old days.
When people would announce,
Of having lived around others...
Unafraid to admit their dysfunctions.
To know not to hide reality for what it is.
Yet...
Here we are.
Living these times and days.
Among those known afraid to admit,
The worst of times to once have lived...
And experienced,
Will never come to compare...
To the best of the worst to define,
With words alone.
As to how,
A normalcy can be described as missed.
When denial, delusion and fiction,
Have become a way of life.
And regarded as entitlements to protect!
Leaving many left lieing to themselves,
To believe...
The only way to rid,
A life threatening pandemic...
Is to ignore the reality of it.


Scheme ABCDEFGHICJKLAMNOPQRSTUVWJ
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 11111 10110111 110101 11010110 011011010 11111101111 1 111 101101 011101101 01111111 00100 1101101 101101101 1101 111 0100110111 1010010010 1010111 001010100101 101011101 101 010111 01100010 110101011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 761
Words 160
Sentences 17
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 588
Words per stanza (avg) 135
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Submitted by lpahtillah on February 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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