Analysis of Wasted



Why spend time or another dime wasted,
On repeatedly receiving the same results.
To achieve successfully.
Perhaps for many,
This act is intended and meant...
To save and preserve,
What is little left of common sense to use.
With it wished to want and hope,
Thinking done to do this eventually...
Will be recognized to honor,
Those brave enough to expose themselves...
As pioneers by the ones,
Awaking to discover being conscious...
Is an experience more enjoyed to explore,
Over the staying limited...
Within boundaries restricted to ignorance.
Rumored to be more satisfying,
If one's thought process was left...
To others with proven track records,
Of accomplishing deception...
Without the need to point fingers,
At the ones...
Noticeably amateurs.
And obviously too brain dead to know,
How many dimes are needed...
Before realizing time to find more is a waste!

'Ten pennies make one dime, right?'

'God?
This is not happening, is it?
Too much of this craze is imagined, right?'

'I thought the same thing too.
But today,
Ten pennies to make one dime...
Only takes 90 more to make a whole dollar.'

'I was not talking to you.
I was talking to God!'

'That's stupid.
Everybody knows,
There will be pennies from Heaven to come...
For you and me.
If we prayed for a falling star.'

'God?
It is happening.
Isn't it?
Okay.
Who am I to question,
Just how mysterious your ways can be?'

'I don't believe this.
While you and God,
Were in a confidential conference.
And you held your head up towards the sky,
With your eyes closed.
This Ten dollar bill landed at my feet.
Appearing from nowhere.
I can't believe this!
You are right.
God does work in mysterious ways.
And if I had 'my' eyes closed,
I would have missed my blessing!'


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111010110 101000100101 1010100 01110 11101001 11001 11101110111 1111101 10111101000 1110110 110110101 101101 110101010 110100101101 10010100 011000101100 10111100 111111 110110101 10100010 01011110 101 100010 0100011111 1101110 011001111101 1101111 1 11110011 1111110101 110111 101 1101111 1011110110 1111011 111011 110 1001 1111011011 1101 11110101 1 11100 101 1 111110 1101001111 11011 1101 000010100 0111110101 1111 1110110111 01011 11011 111 111001001 0111111 1111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,726
Words 366
Sentences 43
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 26, 1, 3, 4, 2, 5, 6, 12
Lines Amount 59
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Written on July 27, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 24, 2023

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