Analysis of Mortals and Angels
They came at me from all angles
Mortals and angels
But I’m still standing despite all the dangers
Heisenberg tried with his ricin beans
Stood toe to toe with Tyson when he was lean and mean
Knocked out Grandpa Joe when he began to sing
But now it’s time for the final battle
Gonna make the heavens rattle
I’ll prod you like cattle
Until you finally respond on God TV channel
There’s a reason you stay shrouded behind a cloud
You ain’t so proud and loud now
Your creation has crowded out anything from the natural world
So put em up, Boomer
I ain’t afraid of you
You’re just a preacher teaching doom and gloom
Behind a curtain
But I’m pretty certain
That you’d shit yourself if Toto entered the room
Oh so no response from you
Just looking on from the great beyond
All nonchalant
While the great buffoon from Amazon
Booked a flight to space with no remorse
Of course you can’t solve all of our problems
You gave us awesome knowledge
But we’re more interested in greed
So as long as our wallets remain bottomless
We thoughtlessly toss toxins at the jobless
But we solemnly swear
That we’ll do the planet a solid
Before Rome’s columns have fallen
But it’s a promise that smells like a rotten pollock
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111110 10010 11110011010 111111 1111110111101 1111110111 1111101010 10101010 111110 01110001111110 101011100101 1111011 1010110110101001 111110 110111 1101010101 01010 111010 111011101001 1110111 110110101 101 10101110 101111101 11111111010 1111010 10110001 1111101001100 111101010 111001 111010010 01110110 1101011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,218 |
Words | 221 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 33 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 961 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 221 |
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