Analysis of Freedom Under Compromised Knowledge



Unseen zeros and ones in vertical lines,
Of H two six fours written for HTML fives,
Never-ending lefts, finally swiping right,
Blood heats up, and we buy into the hype.

Five a.m. there goes the downpour,
Six a.m. It’s commitments versus dysania.
A blink ago, a whiff of petrichor,
Everybody’s craving a slice of Arcadia.

I battle the truth to justify sin,
Can’t seem to grasp John’s three sixteen,
My heart calcifies, my mind is in a bin,
A weak confession, an absolution ungiven.

Muted prayers, coated in doctrine,
And so free-will leads us astray,
Professing a memorised creed by Nicene,
Watching black and white trample grey.

Back and forth and around we go,
Repeating obscenities for another taste,
Save me your blunt “I told you so.”
I already know the pain of my disgrace.


Scheme XXXX ABAX BBBB BCBC DXDX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (40%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 01100101001 1111110111 10101100101 1110110101 1111010 111010101 01010111 1100110100 110011101 11111101 111111001 0101010101 10110010 01111101 01001111 10101101 10100111 010010010101 11111111 10101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 771
Words 138
Sentences 11
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 121
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted by zbddc on April 23, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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