Analysis of Social Media



I met ten-thousand people today,
in a cold and fake, imaginary way.
I poured my heart into the stream,
to find a mirage of what may seem.
People electronically barely there
without the being to really care.
Forlornly I throw the troubled word
to settle so quiet as to be unheard.
Yet, I’ll wear the illusion of community
filled with unpeople I will never see,
tomorrow to howl again, into the deep,
like an ignored, unseen, unloved creep.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 111101001 0010101001 11110101 110011111 1001000101 010101101 1110101 11011011101 111001010100 11111101 0111010101 110101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 440
Words 86
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 345
Words per stanza (avg) 78

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Social media is like a shell with a fantasy on the outside and a sterile void inside.

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Submitted by on June 10, 2022

Modified on April 25, 2023

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