Analysis of Taken For Granted



Taken for granted.
The almighty power,
Our Creator has.
With a doing to believe,
This life blessed to get and receive...
Will be the only one we have.
To do to others,
As we please then leave.
Doing it freely without,
Being judged by unseen deities.
Observing to see,
Everything done we do.
The good, the bad and ugly too.

Taken for granted,
Are lessons taught to us to teach.
With a doing to dismiss,
What is said to hear...
Can be ignored to believe,
Unnecessary to all,
Who live to call themselves human beings.
Animated creations.
Given air to breathe miraculously.
No one self serving or obsessed with things,
Has yet made,
A bird to fly or chirp to sing.
Or water to drink to quench one thirsting.

And yet we take for granted,
This live we live to witness and testify...
Not one of us is immortal,
To survive independently.
Although there are many self righteous.
And accept they are entitled to be exceptions.
Unconsciously limited.
Living with minds restricted.
To a thoughtlessness permitted self inflicted.
Without it to expect,
God delivers...
Misdeeds back to those to return,
What had been given to get it back.
Whether or not,
Lessons were learned to earn...
That which should have been the obvious,
To observe with opened eyes to see coming.

'Everything we worked hard to get,
Overnight has been taken away,
By a storm,
We ignored but warned was coming.
Why would God do that to us?
To leave us left with nothing.'

'Yes.
God.'

'Well...
To who and to what did you pray for to get?
And...
How did you get those things,
In the first place?'

'We worked hard and prayed.
With a sacrificing everyday for years.
Until we were able to obtain,
A good credit score.'


Scheme Axxbbxcbxxdee Axxxbxfgdfhii axxdjgaaxxckxxkji lxxiji xx xlxfx hxxx
Poetic Form Etheree  (28%)
Tetractys  (27%)
Metre 10110 001010 100101 1010101 11111001 11010111 11110 11111 1011001 101101100 01011 10111 01010101 10110 11011111 1010101 11111 1101101 010011 1111011010 100010 1011101000 1111010111 111 01111111 110111111 0111110 1111110010 11111010 1010100 11110110 0011101011010 100100 1011010 1010101010 011101 1010 01111101 111101111 1011 100111 111110100 10111011110 1011111 101111001 101 10111110 1111111 1111110 1 1 1 11011111111 0 111111 0011 11101 1010010111 011010101 01101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,692
Words 372
Sentences 41
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 13, 13, 17, 6, 2, 5, 4
Lines Amount 60
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 184
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Written on June 03, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on June 03, 2023

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