Analysis of Rushing Toward Mediocrity
Let’s all just be average,
no rich and no poor
Excuses our quotient,
single digits the score
Masquerading as fairness,
our heritage veiled
In lock step we march,
voices mute—nothing hailed
(The New Room: February, 2021)
Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111100 11011 0101010 101001 010110 101001 01111 101101 011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 215 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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