Analysis of CAPTIVITY
A cold and half-cold bird in a cage: our soul-body is imprisoned in the doomed bone-prison of our mortality since we came into the world! - We shall be more and more pressed by the all-knowing organic restlessness: every little bell-clang of our heartbeat shall whisper with its melody the patiently numbered and measured eternal messages of our days here on earth!
As alien castaways of a single body, we will always be prisoners in a bone-museum until the lawful sand-periods of our existence are gone: are we only organic matter, bone and tactile and palpable bone-tissue?
It cannot be! Full of tiny moments of magic: Defining and perhaps all-deciding encounters that leave deep traces, blazing glimpses of fireflies and the romance of heaven beyond earth! There is something unique and unrepeatable in every creature: even in the thinking and reckoning man!
My brain never shuts off, glowing with stress, boiling and burning like a volcanic fire, burning, morphing and constantly thinking of the blunders of the past! But only then can I be truly in spiritual equilibrium, honestly settled and contented: If the mistakes of my past were recycled as a human series of experiential slaps and real lessons,
the ancient law of adaptation to life! Unhappy, but perhaps not hopeless, he who enters the future with deliberation!
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Metre | 0101110011011010100011101100100111010111110111011001010010010111101110111000100100100101001101111 1100101010101111100001010010101100110010111110010101010010011 110111101011001000111001011110101011000011100111110010101001010001001001 111011101110010100101010100100101010101110111110010000100100100010100111100101010101001010110 0101101011010101110111001010010 |
Characters | 1,331 |
Words | 227 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 214 |
Words per line (avg) | 44 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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