Analysis of E.M.P. (Electro Magnetic Pulse)



Digital is the Devil
and my
Does he revel
In the details of sin
A vile lottery
That everyone will win
Big winners
All around
Clapping happily
To the sound
Of feeding morbid pleasures
In unlimited measures
A buffet to be consumed
At your leisure

Please sit down
Grab a plate
Gorge yourself
On a snack of fate
It's a lovely repast
Full of hate

Plenty to go around
To add the pounds
And continue to drag you down
To the sound
Of the bell, buzz, and ding
Like Pavlov’s dog
You've been trained to listen
For that satisfying ring

So, you can answer the latest tweet
And drop your head to meet
That soul sucking screen
Filled with programming
From the unseen

It's sad they have us by the neck
And shaped us into a
Media seeking wreck

Bowing when that yank that digital collar
While dangling that virtual dollar
With you craving more as you holler

Gimme more
Without it life is a bore
I'm a drama seeking whore
Feasting on the endless gore

What is really sad about all this
Is that we accept it as bliss
Instead of realizing
We are amiss
And lost in a digital fog

Stuck in a binary bog
Nothing but a robotic cog
Going round and round
To the sound
Of the bell, buzz, and ding
Like Pavlov’s dog
You've been trained to listen
For that satisfying ring
Master of it all
An empty King

Being Human
Used to be a thing
Now just a temporary fling

A waiting room
Before the grave
Nothing but a digital slave
This is what technology gave
A spiritual raping
Is all the rave

We need an E.M.P.
To pull the plug
And set us free

Eric (and sometimes not)


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Poetic Form
Metre 1001010 01 1110 000111 01100 11011 110 101 10100 101 1101010 0010010 0101101 1110 111 101 101 10111 10101 111 101101 1101 00101111 101 101101 111 111110 111001 111100101 011111 11101 1110 1001 11111101 011010 100101 10111110010 1100110010 111011110 101 0111101 1010101 1010101 111010111 11101111 011100 1101 01001001 1001001 1010101 10101 101 101101 111 111110 111001 10111 1101 1010 11101 1101001 0101 0101 10101001 11101001 0100010 1101 1111 1101 0111 100011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,553
Words 319
Sentences 4
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 14, 6, 8, 5, 3, 3, 4, 5, 10, 3, 6, 3, 1
Lines Amount 71
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted by EASN on July 25, 2023

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