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
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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