Analysis of The Whole World's Collapsing
Harmony Mendelow 1945 (Brooklyn, New York)
The Whole World’s Collapsing
The whole world’s collapsing
In front of our eyes
It’s nearly impossible
Knowing truth from the lies
Have the pictures been tainted
Designed and repainted
Have the dates now been altered
Were the images cropped
Engineered to appear
And falsely re-propped
Are we made to believe
That something is fake
Feel good in the moment
Because of that take
Then all of a sudden
Be shown something new
That rattles our brain
And makes us unglue
Is the evil so rampant
We cannot perceive
From whence it is coming
And thereby deceived
Is the right hand holding
The magic reveal
Or did somehow we miss
The left hand conceal
Scheme | A Ab xb xx x cxc defe xgxg fdax ah xh |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010 011010 011101 1100100 101101 1010110 010010 1011110 001001 01101 01011 111101 11011 110010 01111 111010 11101 110101 01101 1010110 11001 111110 01101 101110 01001 11111 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 3, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Written on 2020
Submitted by dezyner1111 on May 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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