Analysis of Compression
Stackable living
hackable lives
On top of each other
like bees in a hive
Inside a box
hard corners to know
A neighbor above
a neighbor below
Stackable moments
fractional lies
The walls serve two masters
invasion implied
All differences measured
in bedrooms and floors
A blueprinted nightmare
its maze underscored
Stackable meaning
the truth wearing thin
Its elevator stuck
stairs covered in sin
The higher you climb
the farther you fall
Stackable living
—the death of us all
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
Scheme | Ax xx xb xb xx xx xx xx ac xc xd Ad x |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 110 11 111110 11001 0101 11011 01001 01001 110 1001 011110 01001 1100010 0101 011 1101 110 01101 11001 11001 01011 01011 110 01111 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 516 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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