Analysis of Sympathetic Explanations



From home is where the work begins.
To demonstrate and show it known,
What is expected.
And not from home to be condoned.

Respect for others to have and it given,
No one should doubt...
A better choice is their decision.

And as one grows,
Prepared to remain...
Observant and pro-active.
Seldom is anyone like this,
Unaware of that which happens...
In their own environment.

Although...
There will be those,
To blame and accuse...
For being negligent and irresponsible.
If their doing for others,
In an environment not their own.
When the choice is made to leave,
Foreign places alone.

And after decades and time to waste,
Sharing knowledge...
Blood, sweat and tears.
Money spent beyond being exorbitant.
To then be accused of abandonment.
Would be similar in comparison,
Of telling lazy children...
To clean up their own mess,
Inside and outside a place where they live.
FREE!
With no other responsibilities.
But told...
What to do, how to do it and when.
And aware,
Of a giving hand to bite it will end one day.

And yet...
With changing of times and warning signs,
Everywhere to see them.
People like this,
Still want it made for others to believe...
Holding someone else,
Held accountable for their own actions...
Is not only justified.
But also overdue with a demanding,
Of sympathetic explanations!

'I understand.
Trust me.
I do.
It took me most of my adult life,
To recognize a strong addiction...
I had with my own delusions.
With a blaming to accuse,
Those telling me the truth.
That they were the ones,
Victimizing my blinded and unconscious...
Drugged on fiction way of life!


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Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 1100111 11010 01111101 01110110110 1111 010111010 0111 01101 0100110 1011011 0111110 0110100 1 1111 11001 110100000100 1110110 010100111 1011111 101001 010010111 1010 1101 10101100100 1110110100 1110000100 1101010 111111 0101101111 1 111000100 11 111111101 001 101011111111 01 110110101 10111 1011 1111110101 1011 1010011110 111010 11010110010 1010010 101 11 11 111111011 11001010 11111010 1010101 110101 11001 1000110010 1110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,528
Words 273
Sentences 39
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 6, 8, 15, 10, 11
Lines Amount 57
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted by lpahtillah on August 18, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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