Analysis of Chain Of Ghouls
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Psyched out.
By a chain of ghouls.
And successfully fooled,
To exchange their souls.
Volunteering absent minds.
Gone no longer with thoughts to use.
Follow they do.
In a long line to await.
Anticipating the ghouls,
Will choose to celebrate...
The feeding to eat,
Upon each piece of their bodies.
Dumbed down to numbness.
Done to medicate.
Truth.
Removed from them reality.
Completely to fiction.
An afterlife for them will come.
So they cheer and applaud.
With awe,
Their quality of life...
Once loved now offends.
While they stand impatiently.
Feeding their minds and bodies to ghouls.
Who continue to nibble and munch away,
A truth replaced.
As this to live it,
In time...
Will fade making fools,
Duped and permanently deceived.
Enslaved.
With a wanting nothing better,
Than to be chained to ghouls.
Controlled and ruled!
Forever tricked and fooled to defend it!
Scheme | XABXXX XCACXXXC XDXX XXXXDAXXEXAXXXABE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 11 10111 001001 10111 010101 11101111 1011 0011101 010001 11110 01011 01111110 11110 1110 1 011110 010110 1101111 111001 11 110011 11101 1110100 101101011 10101100101 011 11111 01 11101 10100001 01 10101010 111111 0101 0101011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 867 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 27 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 4, 17 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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