Analysis of It Is The Dawning



It is the dawning of a promising society,
To have achieved notable greatness...
Dimming with increasing,
Bigotry, division and greed fed selfishly...
By those who refuse to accept,
Each step taken to move time backward...
For many they believe will leave them limited.
Prevents those who refuse to accept,
Progress done to achieve it to happen...
Will be difficult to prove this a wish to do,
When attempting to keep...
Acts of ignorance based upon,
Having an absence of common sense.
And minds restricted to the marketing,
Of decadence.
Opens wider the door to a future,
To adventure and explore.
Yet...
Fictioned to delude,
Keeping more from the door of opportunity...
Bestows those opportunities upon the ones,
Who have their existence focused...
On skin color, images to imitate.
And making pretentious impressions.
The very cause and reason,
Their petty beliefs kept to keep...
In competitions manipulated to win them,
Has a society, once thought great...
Sliding faster from the top downhill.
As if children feeling threatened,
By the appearance of adults...
Not coming to play games.
But also changing the rules as to who,
Is more qualified to hit home runs.
Get business done.
With a doing to prove without campaigning.

And this dawning upon the horizon,
Comes.
Regardless of the many mouths open,
Claiming what it is they can do.
With evidence and proof,
Of the overwhelming incompetence shown.
Useless to hear repeatedly to brag about.


Scheme AXBCDXXDEFGXXBXXXXXAHXIHEGXICXXXFHEB EXEFXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101000100 110110010 101010 1000100111 11101101 111011110 110101111100 011101101 111011110 111001110111 101011 11100101 101101101 0101010100 1100 1010011010 1010001 1 1101 10110110100 01101000101 11101010 1110100110 010010010 0101010 11001111 00100100111 100100111 101010111 11101010 10010101 110111 1101001111 11101111 1101 10101101010 0110010010 1 0101010110 10111111 110001 1001001001 101101001101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,446
Words 280
Sentences 26
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 36, 7
Lines Amount 43
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 571
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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Written on June 29, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on June 29, 2023

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