Analysis of Speed Breaker
Thickened bulges of curved black tarmac,
painted with stripes of brilliant silver white,
right angled patches of dull yellow,
riveted firmly to loose base of mud ground,
bulging handsomely a few inches above the rock bottom base,
blended with coats of sand and dust in the summer day,
smeared partially with slimy drops of car oil,
kissed hard by bulky tyre tread trespassing,
found virtually on every open street of the city,
and mammoth empty patches of the national highway,
an obnoxious hazard prompting reduction of electric speed,
repetitive squealing of brakes in close vicinity of its periphery,
few meters of air-borne journeys after a head-on confrontation,
existing in variable sizes of ultra large, medium and baby stretch of wax mould,
getting a few hours of disturbed sleep after the clock hour strikes midnight,
i the speed breaker warn you of the following,
never drive at nerve wrecking speed,
compress lever bars of the dipper while overtaking at night,
transform all groans into smiles while on the driving wheel,
don't gallop at fast speed when the alcohol meter overflows in your body,
give the underprivileged pedestrians on foot faint chances to cross the road,
and last of all bear this in top shelves of your mind forever,
slacken wheel speed to zero as and when you approach a speed breaker.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101111 1011110101 110101110 10010111111 1010001100101101 1011110100101 11001101111 111101110 1100011001011010 0101010101001 1010101001010101 01001011010100110100 1101111010011010 010010001011011000101111 100110101110011011 101101110100 10111101 101011010110011 0111011110101 110111101010100110 1010100111101101 011111011111010 10111101011010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,317 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 7 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 536 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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