Analysis of Broken Science
Desmond Sheehan 1970
Someone wise told me
complacency breeds indifference
Another wise man said indifference was far worse then dislike or anger
I do the math
I look straight ahead
Feeling nothing
Wondering where or when
Something will return
That may never return
Multiplied
Forging the lack of emotion
It's only now as words spill That I register
This existence
Divide
Do you know if this can be fixed
More words falling into ash
Is complacency terminal
Add
Why do I care anyway
It just is
Look ahead blankly
Nothing to see here
Nothing to feel here
More math
Equals
It's all just
OK
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHHIJCBIKLMNOPAQQDRSO |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 010010100 0101110100111101110 1101 11101 1010 100111 10101 111001 10 10011010 110111111100 1010 01 11111111 1110011 10100100 1 111110 111 10110 10111 10111 11 10 111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 561 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 27 |
| Lines Amount | 27 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on March 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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