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 |
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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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