Analysis of Distortions
The taste of food is better if you truly like the cook
even plain bread and water yield a gustatory look.
The mountaintop is higher where grand beauty lies below
peaks and valleys in-between brightly shimmer, gleam and glow.
The time always spins faster when you're having lots of fun
activities lasting hours are like minutes just begun.
The burden isn't heavy carrying your own lover
pounds are reduced to ounces compared to any other.
The cloudy day seems sunny as warm rays pervade the heart
real climatic conditions can't override or dispart.
The musical vibrations are played by all heavenly bands
dancing to beat and rhythm is what rock and roll demands.
Reality distortions spring from an internal view
experience is subjective shaping what's considered true.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EEFF GG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101110101 10110101011 0101101110101 10100011010101 0111101110111 010010101110101 01010101001110 11011100111010 01011101110101 101001011011 010001011111001 10110101110101 100101110101 010010101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 754 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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