Analysis of already it’s almost too late.
Contaminating and consuming,
wasting and throwing away,
business is simply booming;
resources deplete every day.
Take heed of what we’re doing
before it is far too late,
For the things we are pursuing
will lead to a terrible fate.
The day will soon be dawning,
when the ecology will fail.
So listen to the warning
and don’t let avarice prevail.
Deafened by my own shouting
and saddened by my tears,
because we just go on flouting
and wasting away precious years.
The worlds resources are reducing
and we’re sealing our own fate.
Consider what we’re producing
For already it’s almost too late.
Scheme | ABAB ACAC ADAD AXAX ACAC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 01000010 1001001 1011010 100011001 1111010 0111111 10111010 11101001 0111110 10010011 1101010 01110001 111110 010111 01111110 01001101 011001010 00101011 01010010 10101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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