Analysis of Trapped: Nightmare
Lindsay Mayeux 1992 (United States of America)
Eighty thousand people in a football stadium.
Trapped. Armed guards,
troops, march in.
They won't let us out.
They say there is a problem.
We are unclean and unhealthy.
We are a danger to everyone.
But the soldiers aren't right.
They look human,
but have the movements of an insect.
They don't seem right.
Do their eyes emit darkness?
They say it's for our own good.
Orders to be followed.
We must stay inside or die.
Hell, they want to kill us anyway.
They...
hunger?
We are on the menu.
They seem delighted.
Our fear, our suffering,
our flesh
and blood.
We are what sustains them.
Our energy is what they want.
They are here for a feast.
They are here for mankind.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010001100 111 110 11111 1111010 11010010 11010110 1010101 1110 11010111 1111 1110110 11111011 101110 1110111 11111110 1 10 111010 11010 10110100 101 01 111011 101001111 111101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 695 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 25 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 27 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 508 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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