Analysis of The Internet: A Wonderous Parasite
The internet a concept once so bright.
Now tis the ultimate parasite.
The people gorge themselves blindly.
And it excepts them so kindly.
They so much junk onto it.
Through their little electric conduit.
Boys and girls, young and old.
All think they have something to be told.
A selfie, a vid and maybe a meme?
A lunch pic, a tic tok, perhaps a stream?
A chat, a tweet and cat vids galore.
But you know? NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR HIGHSCORE!
All those five million fans, do you think they care.
NUTS TO YOU! I’VE GOT SOMETHING BETTER TO SHARE!
It’s my lunch from yesterday, it’s chicken ramen.
Oh wow, how common.
Oooh ten million subs, that’s quite the victory you tasted.
Along with ten years well wasted.
Hey, here’s something from my boyfriend pat.
Oh, no one needs to see that.
Random ads and ads it’s hard to bare.
Wow you bought a new car? I don’t care.
Though I myself am guilty too.
Believing what I show is something new.
I cast my works with everyone.
Yet it comes to less than none.
But this is not the worst it gets.
The thought fill me with regrets.
Our businesses, our lives, our all the times—fueled by the internet.
And in return it ensures our needs our met.
But without it man’s would draw nigh.
Likewise, without us it would surely die.
We are its body, it is our mind.
A relationship so unkind.
Both prisoner and jailer to each other.
Never to be free from one another.
To think such a thing is a true fright.
The internet is the ultimate parasite.
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Metre | 010010111 11010010 01010110 0111110 1111101 1110010100 101101 111110111 010101001 0110110101 010101101 1111110111 11110111111 11111101011 1111101101 11110 11101110100110 01111110 11101111 1111111 101011111 111011111 1111101 0101111101 1111110 1111111 11110111 0111101 1010010110101101010 0001101101101 10111111 101111101 1111011101 0010101 11000101110 1011111010 111011011 0101010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,447 |
Words | 275 |
Sentences | 41 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 24, 14 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 564 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 138 |
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Written on June 16, 2021
Submitted by robinf on July 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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