Analysis of Blind Devotion
They dance and dance and dance,
Round and round and round again,
Flowery hair and flowery dress
Together singing a hymn
“Love and freedom for all!”
Failing to see the flames around them
They dance and dance and dance,
Round and round and round again,
Flags in hand together they say
“None above another, all are equal men!”
Failing to see who molded their clay
They dance, and they dance, and they dance again.
And again,
Smoke whispers through the flames
“You are oppressed! Just like us!”
But they do not see,
Those blind devotees,
Their houses burned by the invisible flames.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 1010101 100101001 0101001 101011 101101011 110101 1010101 10101011 10101011101 101111011 1101101101 001 110101 1101111 11111 11101 11011001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 5 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 228 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
About this poem
I felt inspired to write this poem after observing the way most of us tend to live our lives and the issues there in. This poem is a sort of reflection of how I as a Christian view the largely secular world.
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