Analysis of An Ode to America
Crazy times.
Call for crazy rhymes.
Up is down down is up.
Hello hi, yo wassup,
are just blankets of sanity.
Masks of humanity.
When shit hits the storm,
Madness is the norm.
Pinched noses, closed eyes,
We are drowning, time flies.
Trapped in your mind,
A thousand of a kind.
Expose the veiled.
It comes out when it's hailed.
A little mad but good people!
A little sad in the hood, people.
When you lose your mind,
The truth is what you find.
Just listen, just listen.
Our rules, our cages, the keys are missin'.
Task assigned. Go. Mission!
Locked up in some fantasies.
Our world of fallacies.
Turned away to normalcy.
When turned back see hypocrisy.
Employees only, toys only.
Locker room: boys only.
See red? There's danger.
Go in. It's stranger.
Our rules, our traditions.
Our thoughts, our conditions.
The matrix's illusion,
Logic is a delusion.
Trance of the opium,
Fly through the continuum.
Hear me out,
No need to shout.
Conditioned, it dont matter.
Sit down, get fatter.
Don't climb the ladder,
Everyone, gather.
A new drug is found,
A brand new compound.
Be lazy, be crazy,
Sleep in, eyes hazy.
Served on a plate,
No need to wait.
No need to sow,
No need to grow.
Wait. Is it a show?
Yes, yes. No, no.
Oh! Oh!
When all you do is wrong and all you do is right.
When paranoia strikes you, what will you fight?
Is this a tunnel? At the end do you see a light?
Or are you in a pit?
To the core taken a hit.
Falling apart, bit by bit.
No hate, no fears?
Oh baby, no more tears?
Yeah live like you're eight.
Leave it all to fate.
Forget the hate.
It's so easy mate!
There is no easy answer.
Life lives but spreads like cancer.
It ignites,
It fights.
It grows,
It knows.
It comes,
It goes.
But can we just hit pause?
Come together for a cause?
Retract the claws.
Agreement, no clause.
Crazy times, call for crazy rhymes.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHFFIIIJJCCCCKKLLIIMMNNKKKKOOCCPPQRRRRSSSTTTUVPPPPKKWWXXYXZ1 ZZA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 11101 111111 01111 11101100 110100 11101 10101 11011 111011 1011 010101 0101 111111 01011110 010100110 11111 011111 110110 10110100111 101110 1101100 1011100 1011100 11110100 01010110 101110 11110 10110 10110010 10110010 0100010 1010010 110100 1100100 111 1111 0101110 11110 11010 1010 01111 01110 110110 10110 1101 1111 1111 1111 11101 1111 11 111111011111 1010111111 1101010111101 111001 1011001 1001111 1111 110111 11111 11111 0101 11101 1111010 1111110 101 11 11 11 11 11 111111 1010101 0101 01011 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,750 |
Words | 343 |
Sentences | 69 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 77 |
Lines Amount | 77 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,364 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 343 |
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Submitted on January 09, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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