Sound System



His loud-played system
Blatted sound at me,
Sound that sped
At 350 meters per second
Or there about
Just like shrieks and whispers
And warning shouts.
Seems odd that 100 phonons of pain
Would travel just the same
As 100 phonons of din,
And in an instant,
Both are gone to nothing.
How curious of the air
To be so impartial,
So cavalier.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 322
Words 63
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15

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