Analysis of Knock, Knock



Have you been disrespected?
Do you feel inhumanely rejected?
Is disappointment reflected?

Is it time to pay them back
For their unprovoked attack
Since it is forgiveness
That you lack

Do you feel justified
For the violence
You applied
To coincide
For the satisfaction
Of your reaction

Does it feel good
To meltdown
To show your misunderstood
Or do you regret your actions
And wish to take it back if you could

What compels us
In our revenge

Why is it delicious
To feed our need to be vicious
When it comes to self satisfaction of a slight
Why, the perpetuation of the need to be right

Does it matter to you or your ego
That needs to be stroked
Or is it simply the embarrassment
That needs to be cloaked

They say it better to turn the other cheek
But for most
It appears as a display of the weak
But if you look deeper you will see
The power of forgiveness
Is a gift of the meek
A skill that we should all seek

Retribution is a vile course
Something for your soul to divorce
While looking for remorse
From the only source
Worth searching for

God
The keeper of eternity's door
Will you knock?
Or be lost evermore?

Eric (and sometimes not)


Scheme AAX BBCB DXDDEE FXFXF CX CCGG XHXH IXIXCII JJJJK XKXK X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (29%)
Metre 111010 1111010 1010010 1111111 110101 111010 111 11110 10100 101 101 10010 11010 1111 11 111001 11101110 011111111 1011 01001 111010 111011110 11111010101 100010101111 1110111110 11111 1111000100 11111 11110110101 111 1011001101 111110111 0101010 101101 0111111 0101011 10111101 110101 10101 1101 1 010111 111 11110 100011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,146
Words 230
Sentences 6
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 6, 5, 2, 4, 4, 7, 5, 4, 1
Lines Amount 45
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted by EASN on July 25, 2023

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