Analysis of Sound System
His loud-played system
Blatted sound at me,
Sound that sped
At 350 meters per second
Or there about
Just like shrieks and whispers
And warning shouts.
Seems odd that 100 phonons of pain
Would travel just the same
As 100 phonons of din,
And in an instant,
Both are gone to nothing.
How curious of the air
To be so impartial,
So cavalier.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
| Metre | 11110 1111 111 110110 1101 111010 0101 111111 110101 1111 00110 111110 1100101 111010 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 322 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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