Analysis of Greed
Greed, you wildfire.
You destroy everything in your path.
An insatiable hunger
To own it all.
A thirst that can never be quenched.
You take and take until nothing is left.
The world suffers at the hands of your avarice.
The forests disappear,
The oceans filled with infection.
The air we breathe, so polluted with desire.
All because of the craving that sets us on fire.
Scheme | AXAXBB XXXAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 10110011 1010010 1111 01111011 1101011011 011010111100 01001 01011010 011110101010 1011010111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 373 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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