Analysis of My Religion



I believe in no God.
My lips shall know not the name of deities
like countless lost prayers-
Are they ever heard?

Preachings of forgiveness, funny
how I find more devotion in
whispers of sin behind Light’s reach-
Who are we to deny human nature?

Piety, in all its divine name, should know
Jealousy is a fatal flaw
and Mortality supposes it is too.
Simply knowing stops neither.

Holy, yet only a dying candle’s flicker
in the presence of earthly ephemerality,
because beauty was never meant to be eternal
lest its definition erodes with the waves of time.

Fragile flowers, so easily withered-
never forget they endured harsh winter to bloom
if solely for one warm sunrise.
It is not merciful. It is not unkind.

Is it not more entrancing? A bonfire
dancing until rain’s final applause.
While the sun’s glow, if never-resting,
reduces to an eyesore.

Mortals may worship Celestia; look closer
and see that Gods are captivated by humans-
admire what they cannot understand, cannot possess.
Ask any immortal about lust and envy.

Heaven, I have witnessed only once
in the reflection of her eyes.
No breeze so gentle than
the one echoing her summer laugh.

I believe in no God.
But I have found my religion.


Scheme Axxb cxxd xxxd daxx bxex dxxx dxxc xefx Af
Poetic Form
Metre 101011 11111011100 11011 11101 1101010 11110100 10110111 1111011010 10001101111 10010101 00100010111 1010110 101100101010 00101101 0110110111010 110100110111 1010110010 100110111011 11001111 11110011101 11111010 100111001 101111010 010111 101101110 01111100110 011110011001 110010011010 101110101 00010101 111101 011000101 101011 11111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,214
Words 234
Sentences 18
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 34
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on September 13, 2023

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