Analysis of Morose and muzzled each morning.
Saw some this morning
Shaded expressions
Shoulders slumped.
Steel toes and blue jeans.
Fatter ones wear sweat pants.
Waiting for bus.
Same schedule and dedicated passengers.
Nobody talks.
Cellphones compelling.
Thirty percent still
stifled with COVID masks.
Disinclined toward community.
Maybe later.
Not bloody likely. We’ve been had.
The great god of
Good Health told us
To be afraid.
To stay separate and alone.
To distrust many as carriers
Of this breathing endemic.
Old folks tumbling with it.
Nurses and medics collapsing
With the stress and
Sustained hours fighting
This ridiculous War.
Cashiers muzzled and having
Difficulty listening to
various fretting requests.
Through plexiglass.
Heroes on the frontline?
Nah, they just want their pay.
Scheme | AXXXXB CXAXXX XXXBXXCX XAXAXAXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 10010 101 11011 101111 1011 11001000100 11 1010 10011 10111 01010100 1010 11010111 0111 1111 1101 1110001 101101100 1110010 1110011 10010010 1010 011010 101001 110010 10001001 1001001 110 10101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 761 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 8, 11 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Written on April 14, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 14, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on April 14, 2023
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