Analysis of Soul Crying Foul



I'll admit to my missing a fair few boats up the coast, their true harm alarms ringing.
To burning bridges and digging deep trenches to bury future friendships.

Cause I was busy getting high on a lie, clinging to false opes Purdue pharma was slinging sly at doe eye dopes like me for endless riches.

And I know a reason's no excuse,
But we're reverse sick from all the abuse
and greed-cursed cures causing the worst and wicked,
Sure as Sin from Within
Human Sickness.

And yeah granddad, true, we should all be caught up by now,
If I had me a mule or a couple acres to plow
Or if we lived in the future your children wouldn't allow.
But the boats are all jet powered now and leave the dock with surprising quickness.

And worldwide the shores & waters polluted with that same rising black thickness

So consider what conditions
and soul sucking bare subsistence
would cause us all abandon
your traditions,
And our ambitions,
And all sense of pure conviction.

We pick up our boot straps from the Marianas Trenches
To bridle the tide to the end of existence.


Scheme XX X AAXXB CCCB B DEFDDF XE
Poetic Form
Metre 101111001111011110110 110100101101101010 11110101101101110110110111111111010 01101101 1101111001 01111001010 111101 1010 011111111111 11110110101011 111100101101001 1011111010101101010 011011001011110110 10101010 01101010 1111010 1010 010010 01111010 11110111001010 110011011010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,065
Words 214
Sentences 8
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 1, 5, 4, 1, 6, 2
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 120
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Written on November 07, 2023

Submitted by graham.stickels on November 06, 2023

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