Analysis of To seek and to find
Man seeks god,
Where he cannot find.
In the mortar and bricks
of towers, domes and spires.
He mouths mantras of words;
Recites the scriptures of pages.
Neither inane reading nor sloganeering
Makes him any less cunning.
Almighty resides beyond the recesses,
of man's growing distrust and crookedness.
To forsake the selfless not too far
Not too near to bless the selfish either.
Serve the hapless, He is served,
Feed the poor, He is propitiated,
Speak the truth, His mantras reinvented,
Be kind, His religion rightly practised,
Become a man, His kingdom straight reached.
Scheme | AXXX XBCC BXXX XAXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11101 001001 110101 11111 01010110 10011011 1110110 01001010100 1110010100 101010111 1111101010 1010111 101111 101110010 111010101 010111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 556 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
This is the poem I wrote a few months ago. My agony over mindless religiosity and bigotry found its expression through this poem.
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