Analysis of Color Dazed



As black as it is massive,
This to witness Universe stays.
Adorned with stars seen to twinkle,
Light years from us away.
It is from this darkness dreams are made.
To wish upon a falling star.
Seen from where we are come true.
And yet with closed to open eyes,
Confusing and difficult it remains...
For anyone to explain,
Why many still refuse to accept...
The ones born reflecting,
Different skin hues.
On an Earth that inhabits,
Such various depictions of God's creation.

And yet,
Without color to pick,
How dreams to wish for them to come.
To brighten up their competitive,
And boring existence.
Very few would live to admit,
If it had not been out from darkness...
Everything they enjoy to experience it,
From food they eat to people they meet...
Attracted their emotional sensibilities.
With a color of it to notice more.
Than arguing over the price to pay,
They used to satisfy...
That craving to be entertained.

'Too far out in the water,
Are you fishing to get my response.
Reel your line closer to the shore.'

'How many dreams can you envision,
And create...
Using a white crayon?
From a box of an assortment of colors.'

'The color,
Of my chosen and selected Universe!'

'And...
What sense does that make?'

'You brought the subject up.
No one I know,
Whatever 'hue' their ethnicity...
Lives on this Earth tax free.
Regardless what they claim to own.'

'I believe we were talking about color.'

'And that color is 'green'.
For every bill I owe to pay.
That's how grounded I remain,
To my own unchanging reality.
With hands of every color,
Displaying to show me their palms.
Stretched out in my direction!'

'You have missed my point!'

'And God works in mysterious ways!


Scheme ABXCXXXXXDXXXXE XXXAXFXFXXGCXX HXG EXXX HX XX XXIIX H XCDIHXE X B
Poetic Form Tetractys  (33%)
Metre 1111110 1110101 01111110 111101 111110111 11010101 1111111 01111101 0100100101 110101 110101101 011010 10011 1111010 110001011010 01 011011 11111111 110110100 010010 10111101 111111110 10101101001 111111011 010101000100 1010111101 1100100111 11110 1101101 1110010 111011101 11110101 110111010 001 10011 10111010110 010 1110001010 0 11111 110011 1111 10110100 111111 01011111 10110100110 011011 110011111 1110101 11101010 11110010 01011111 1101010 11111 011001001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,643
Words 310
Sentences 39
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 15, 14, 3, 4, 2, 2, 5, 1, 7, 1, 1
Lines Amount 55
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted by Lp,jr. on October 11, 2021

Modified on April 13, 2023

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