Analysis of Pools Of Irrationality
Pools Of Irrationality
Past times, a section of the mind, was devoted to irrational thoughts and visions
Small in size, everyone’s pool of irrationality was pretty much different
One person’s palace, another person’s pile of rubbish, never imagined
Those pools have grown so much in size, as rationality melts out of sight
Now everyone’s swimming around inside, looking for islands of rationality
Polar bears swimming around, makes no difference, we drown on dry land
Our world, is a world built on science, for science, great works of science
Beliefs okay, until used as rules to govern machines, that have no thoughts
Every computer, smart machine, phone or tablet, is a slot machine
Using bits of life, every time levers pulled, leveraging nothing into something
Brains are not required for acting intelligently, single cell creatures are doing great
Plants brains are in their roots, above ground the machinery of life blossoms
Rhyme and reason became melodies without words, background scenery
Drifting flights of fancy, once powerless, now marching down dead ends
Flawed decisions clearly practiced, never noticed, as we’re all doing it
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Metre | 1100100 110101011010101001010 101111001001101100 1101001010111010010 11111101101001111 111001011011010100 10110011110011111 101101111011011110 01101111110011111 100010101111010101 101111001101100100110 11101011001000101101101 111011011001001110 1010011000111100 1011101100110111 101010101010101101 |
Characters | 1,157 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 58 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
The part of the mind devoted to irrational thought, formerly a walled off, deeply personal, private section, has turned into a public stadium where everyone shares the same flights of fancy.
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Written on 2019
Submitted by rzwilling on May 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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