Analysis of Requiem for A Digital World
Robert G Dewberry 1955 (Baltimore Maryland)
How came it to be writing cursive
Is now an act deemed so subversive?
Block chain, block print, geometry...
From these reigns can we ever be free?
Radio Star by video erased
Foretold an analog world displaced
If I would flee such digital death
Perhaps I can focus on my breath
In and out like a billows it flows
Giving more rest than silken pillows
From a wearisome world of thinking
If my focus remains unshrinking
And from a promontory breathless
In empyrean glory deathless
My mind no longer writes a story
With digits full of sound and fury
| Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF XEBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111101 111111010 11110100 111111011 101110001 01110101 111111001 011110111 001101011 101111010 101001110 1110011 010110 01101 111101010 110111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 547 |
| Words | 105 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on October 23, 2020
Submitted by rgdlakshmi55 on October 30, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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