Analysis of On the verge
Kelley Davies 1983 (Dallas)
What if it collapses?
What if I break?
I'm falling, dying slowly
Ego torn to pieces
Bright sunshine on the edge of a heart holocaust
There is bleak, and then there is darkness
Black holes swallowing the whole moon
The imminent collapse of a society torn from the inside
Breaking from the inside
I wander aimlessly
Contemplate my namelessness
I am a nothing, a nobody
But I am witnessing the end
Praying that final collapse just
| Scheme | A X B X X X X C C B A B X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010 1111 1101010 101110 1110110110 111011110 11100011 01000110010011001 101001 110100 1011 1101001 11110001 10110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 514 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 14 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 25 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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