Analysis of Collapsing Empire
with increasing warmth water rises
up to the numbed people’s mouths
and the inflated money plops
like blown bubbles of soap
out of the stock hero’s reach
the praised god of great profit
worshipped for his fake promises
of fortune that can be bought
demands ever more sacrifices
it’s a gambling with blood
from the exalted balcony of power
cold eyes blindly stare on gold
viciously gained in cruel egoism
whereas those who are impecunious
will only spin sham threads
richly blessed the new emperor
whether it freezes or thaws
he will always stay floating
but those who put their trust in him
will proof nuder than ever before
| Scheme | AXAXX XAXXX BXXAX BXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (45%) |
| Metre | 101011010 1101101 00010101 111011 1101101 0111110 10111100 1101111 01101100 1010011 10010100110 1110111 1001010100 011111 110111 10101100 1011011 111110 11111101 11111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 612 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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