Analysis of How Not Thou Art



How not thou art.
To thyself honest.
Or others to deceive.

How not thou art.
Committed to truth.
Habitually you lie.
And the lies you tell,
Are believed to leave...
Behind you purposely.

How not thou art.
Mentally secure.
Or aware and conscious enough to care,
Of others anywhere,
Who do not share your sentiments.
Sentiments distanced from common sense.

How not thou art.
Grounded.
How not thou art.
Down to Earth to claim you are.
How not thou art.
Of a sound mind found.
Yet thou art followed around,
As if what you do makes nectar.
Better than a collective,
Of jive talking street dwellers selling...
Vanilla coated B.S.
Yet yours to cover in chocolate,
You tell it told is better licked to last...
With a flavor remembered never to forget.

How not thou art,
To thyself honest.
Yet thou art,
A creator of division.
A mess leaving deceiver.
And a liar who habitually attracts,
Those addicted to self inflicting traps.
To know...
How thou art is not one to trust.
Yet is to follow and enjoy self destruction!

How not thou art,
Sane.
Nor blamed to be,
A magician of hypnotic misdeeds.
A disciple of evil thou art and followed!
Loved.
As this vulture preys!
Loved.
Thou art this vulture.
Who craves the staying to prey.
Caring less for the well-being of humanity!


Scheme ABc Axxxcd Aeffgx AxAxAhhixxgxxx ABajexxxbj AxdxxKxKixd
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Metre 1111 1110 110101 1111 01011 0100011 00111 10111 011100 1111 10001 1010100111 11010 11111100 100101101 1111 10 1111 1111111 1111 10111 1111001 11111110 1010010 111011010 010101 11110010 1111110111 101001010101 1111 1110 111 00101010 01101 001010100001 1010110101 11 11111111 111100011010 1111 1 1111 0010101001 001011011010 1 11101 1 11110 1101011 1011011010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,275
Words 284
Sentences 41
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 6, 14, 10, 11
Lines Amount 50
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 163
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Written on July 31, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 31, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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