Analysis of Out of Control
Where the powerful control the press
They can do anything
To those who are powerless
Morals are mere painting
What‘s wrong is made right
Things do change over night
Faces with false emotion
Are shown each day on TV
Most viewers have no notion
They haven’t the slightest idea
Don’t believe your ears and eyes
Media fills you with lies
Covering up mistakes and schemes
Nothing is what it seems
Read between the lines and detect
The carefully hidden effect
Faces with false emotion
Are shown each day on TV
Most viewers taking this potion
Are brainwashed by what they see
The politician in his suit looks smart
Whilst media trained pretending
He speaks from his heart
He’s twisting and bending
The truth and the facts
Lying about his deceiving acts
Faces with false emotion
The ones that you watch on TV
They set the world in motion
Without thinking of you and me
Promising and explaining
Demanding and complaining
Threatening and accusing
Giving in or refusing
It’s all just performing an act
Playing the polls as a fact
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101000101 11110 1111100 101110 01111 111101 1011010 1111111 1101110 11010010 1011101 1001111 10010101 101111 10101001 01001001 1011010 1111111 11010110 111111 001001111 11001010 11111 110010 01001 100110101 1011010 01111111 1101010 01101101 1000010 0100010 1000010 1001010 11101011 1001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,035 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 6, 4, 6, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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