Analysis of Interest



Living to comprehend,
The definition and meaning to feel...
An understanding done.
Can be effectively respected,
If exchanging the acceptance of it...
Is not a competition to win arguments.

Too many rush to qualify,
Appearances and their differences.
With a teaching of this approach to life,
As a way to establish...
The wrong and right,
Black and white; height and size of it.
Without going beyond,
The limits of their confined experiences.
Yet...
Dare to declare,
Themselves aware and knowledgeable...
Of gains they have obtained,
From rumors heard to hear...
By gossip spewed on the streets,
Coming out of the mouths of those...
Socially illiterate!

Too many,
Speed dial and rush to identify...
Whose appearance qualifies,
A giving of respect.
To first inspect,
Their differences to object to them.
Living only to understand...
Although distanced from comprehending,
The meaning to understanding...
Is not a competition to win arguments.
Or declare a winning to have won,
Achieves anything done...
Believed mutually left understood.

'I WON. I WON THE ARGUMENT!'

'The one you attempted,
To get me to understand...
Where you were coming from.
Done to have experienced.
And I refused to listen.
So I won.'

'To understand what to win?'

'I don't understand what you mean!'

'You've got to be kidding?'

'So...
If you don't know,
What argument you won.
And I was not,
Competing with you to win anything.
Why and what are you so excited about?
Not understanding?
Make your nonsense,
Of meaningful interest to me.
I am here with ears to hear this!'

'You are doing this to make me,
Look like a fool.'

'Trust me.
I had nothing to do,
To make you feel you look that way.
But if that look should cement your win?
Who am I to object,
To the obvious observed and witnessed!
You won.
And I lost...
Your argument.
Congratulations!'


Scheme xxaxbC dexxxbxexxxxxxxx fdxggxhiiCaax j xhxxaa k x i llaxixixfx fx fxxkgxaxjx
Poetic Form
Metre 10101 001001011 10101 110100010 1010001011 11001011100 1101110 0100011000 1010110111 1011010 0101 10110111 011001 010110101000 1 1101 010101000 111101 110111 1101101 10110111 1000100 110 110011010 101010 010101 1101 1100011011 1010101 1101010 0101010 11001011100 101010111 01101 011000101 11110100 011010 111101 110101 1110100 0101110 111 101111 1101111 111110 1 1111 110011 0111 010111110 10111101001 1010 1110 11001011 11111111 11101111 1101 11 111011 11111111 111110111 111110 1010001010 11 011 1100 0010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,895
Words 401
Sentences 53
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 6, 16, 13, 1, 6, 1, 1, 1, 10, 2, 10
Lines Amount 67
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted by lpahtillah on February 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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