Analysis of The box
Have you ever watched TV?
Do you like it
Or repulsed by what you see
Hundreds of channels
Display a variety of trauma
Filling your grey matter
With decaying drama
Binging on the vile, petty and insane
24/7
Of human shame
Gotta be extreme
And go to the max
The news of civilized sewage to help you relax
It’s enough to make anyone a recluse
Feasting on society’s refuse
Brought to you in widescreen 4K
Programming you with the flavor of the day
Fascinating that we pay for this atrocity
And claim it to be harmless mediocrity
Just background noise to curtail the peace
Its simply the mind they fleece
Gotta love the negativity they put out
The digital sickness is the clout
It’s enough to make the jelly between your ears pout
And say enough is too much
Is this world really out of touch?
It’s little wonder
Why so many are insane
Anxiety ridden
And lite in the brain
When all you see, hear and consume
Is daily drama and doom
Without a break it’s hard to make that smile you fake
Happiness is simply a commodity
A temporary expensive little oddity
Prescribed in a tiny measure
Intense in reaction and small in pleasure
Perhaps a cutting of the cord
Will help to empty your gourd
And provide a peace you can afford
A silent conversation with the Lord
To let him know that even though your rotten
He is not forgotten
Eric (and sometimes not)
Scheme | AXA XBCB DXX XEE XXFF AAGG HHHII CDJD KKX AACC LLL LJJ X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 1111 1011111 10110 0100100110 101110 101010 1010110001 1 1101 10101 01101 011101011101 1011110001 101101 111011 1011010101 100111110100 01111100100 11110101 1100111 10100100111 010010101 1011101001111 0101111 11110111 11010 1110101 010010 01001 11111001 1101001 010111111111 10011000100 010001010100 01001010 01001001010 01010101 1111011 001011101 010010101 11111101110 111010 100011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,362 |
Words | 263 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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