Analysis of Hazards Of Cigarette Smoking-Poisonous Smoke
Jaded tobacco flakes in wrapped yellow candy paper,
White and appalling in visual imagery,
Dunloped to high degrees of compression,
Forming tetra inch sticks,
Of ashen grey crusty powder,
Thoroughly malnourished and stale,
A recipe for unending doomsday,
An aftermath of human greed,
Accentuating lecherous desires of eating smoke,
Bitter and contaminated ash,
Ignited by a host of sleazy gadgetry,
Wooden sticks of leaded match,
Producing derogatory clouds of white air,
Floating with fetid fragrance; low vitality,
With occasional buts of red coal falling down,
Diffusing into soft powder,
Carcinogenic to several glands of the living organism,
Chronologically spreading its ghastly effect,
To millions of mouths consuming it,
Chewing it; blowing it; relishing it,
Stitching webs of longevity forever,
Succumbing to something as inconsequential,
As a portable cylinder of pressed tobacco,
Withering mankind to caves of self destruction,
Rendering it the worst of its kind.
Scheme | ABCDAEFGHIBJKBLAMNOOAPQCR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001101101010 100100100100 111011010 101011 11011010 10001001 010010101 1101101 01001000101101 10001001 010101110100 1011101 01001001111 101101010100 101001111101 01001110 001011011010100 01001011001 110110101 1011011001 10110100010 01011010010 101001001101 100111111010 100101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 974 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 802 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 145 |
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