Analysis of Allegiance To Grievance



Upholding an allegiance to grievance.
And entitled rights to prove,
A fear that threatens...
Taking progressive moves away,
From ways remaining to stay...
Hopelessly cemented in restricting ignorance.
Sad,
Are the minds...
Blinded unconsciously behind the times.
And with beliefs fictioned to feel,
Relief they can temporarily keep...
Truth kept to refuse reality to silence.
Regardless if denial lived to delude,
Has created a quality of life left to slide...
Downhill into a cesspool.
Many without insight delight in the power,
Darkness has become invited to rule over...
Enlightenment.
And a future intended and meant to exist.
Yet...
Has no chance if incompetent and limited,
Leadership continues to be picked...
By images to worship a culture based upon,
Unrealistic ideals to imitate and idolize...
Empty pretensions absent of substance.
Although...
Dependable are conflicts, division.
And the diversity of racial ethnicities,
Upheld to prove,
A pledging an allegiance to grievance...
Is worth the chaos it causes to blame others,
As a ritual.
Historic.
To support and endorse,
Without explanation needed!


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (29%)
Metre 0101010110 0010111 01110 10010101 1101011 1000100010100 1 101 101000101 0101111 011101001 1110110110 01010101101 1010010011111 110101 10011010010 101010101110 0100 001001001101 1 111101000100 10010111 1100110010101 01001110010 1001010110 1 0100101010 0001001101 0111 0101010110 110101101110 10100 010 101001 0101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,111
Words 203
Sentences 23
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 35
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 885
Words per stanza (avg) 169
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Written on April 07, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on April 07, 2023

Modified on April 07, 2023

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