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
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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Submitted by baluswetha21 on August 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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