Analysis of What Life Is To Live It



I have had my mistakes to make.
On a path I decided for me I would take.
And...
If there is anything I have learned,
As I grow older to age.
Is to mention less than I actually know.
About my own experiences.
Earned and not to me given.
While listening to those attempting to show,
There are benefits from keeping,
An awareness limited to a consciousness...
Valued and restricted,
To a shared and down to Earth ignorance.
Everywhere accepted and approved.

What life to live it is,
Means much more....
Than to have it heard to hear.
Without personal chances and risks to take.
Attempting to avoid,
Escaping away from pain and heartaches.
Hoping that to do is an easy decision made.
As long as one believes,
They have the right to delude.
With a doing that done,
To stay as far away from truth and reality.
That keeps the living of their life to live,
Strictly limited to fiction.
Regardless if their burdens,
Remain on their shoulders.
Are there.
Obvious to witness them to bear.

'Why do you refuse to accept what's going on.'

'What do you mean?
I can't accept what's going on?
I'm living my life as best as I can.
And you seem to be the one,
Unable to accept...
My truth to live my reality.
As if your business should be my priority.
I'm willing to bet,
If you mind your own business...
You will have less time,
Being in the business of mine!'

'What?
I have enough problems as it is.
Without people like you,
Trying to find a way to make your nonsense...
A normal life to live.
And there is not a single proof or evidence,
Of it anywhere.'


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Poetic Form Etheree  (24%)
Metre 11110111 10111011111 0 11110111 1111011 11101111001 011101000 1011110 11001101011 11100110 101010010100 100010 1010111100 10010001 111111 111 1111111 01100100111 010101 010011101 1011111100101 111101 1101101 101011 11110111010 1101011111 10100110 0101110 011110 11 100110111 111011011101 1111 11011101 1101111111 0111101 010101 1111110 111101110100 11011 1111110 11111 10001011 1 110110111 011011 10110111110 010111 011101011100 1110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,556
Words 346
Sentences 38
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 14, 17, 1, 11, 7
Lines Amount 50
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 235
Words per stanza (avg) 58
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Written on October 08, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on October 08, 2023

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