Analysis of Instructions



instructed by how things are
Effected by the living day
Within the spirit that
Slays the dragon within our dreams

To find the spring within
The childhood innocence of man
Quietly it wakes

Open to its presence of what can be
Like imagery of flowing mountains
Amidst the shadows of walking rivers
There are the things which come to see
To be the being of itself

As if the universe was in a single drop of water
To capture the whole in just its parts
Questions that answer without the question
Which it lives within itself

Where mountains and rivers become our teachers
Self reflected in all abounds
The open spirit of the living forms


Scheme XXXX XXX AXBAC XXXC BXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101111 01010101 010101 101001101 110101 0110011 10011 1011101111 110011010 010111010 11011111 11010101 11010100101110 110010111 1011001010 1110101 110010011010 10100101 0101010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 651
Words 122
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 5, 4, 3
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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