Analysis of Justifying The Fire



Justifying the fire.
And admitting committing,
The raising up the heat of it.
Leaving more enjoying,
A joining...
In participating throwing their fuel.
On the flames burning up and around.
Hoping what they do done,
Will find them...
Found declared sacrificial martyrs.
Heros!
Performing acts of dysfunction.
Normalized.
As more become mentally disturbed.
Not to realize their quality of life,
They would rather kick to the curb.
For a better existence.
To delude and fiction themselves,
Unharmed by the flames.
Burning their own feathers and wings.

Unable to fly.
Unable to escape.
Together to recreate.
Rising higher and above the chaos.
in flight.
Like...
The Phoenix ascending from ashes.
Yet heard screaming and chased by denial!

A denial permitted to admit and commit.
By flames they started.
Although...
Not meant for themselves to be,
Victimized.
And running from the heat.
Up and around them.
Not to be declared martyrs.
But fools who chose to choose,
This choice to accept...
Their entitled rights to burn.
Justifying the fire.
Without one escape to create for themselves!

'Uh...
But,
Why would anyone start a fire?
Stay and watch it burn all around them.
Then scream for help.
To expect others to rush and provide,
Them rescue?'

'Why would anyone,
Blessed with a brain and common sense.
To await and depend,
Upon someone else...
Who has repeatedly told them,
Increasing the heat of an oven...
With hands purposely remaining on it,
May burn!'

'Who would do such a stupid thing?'

'The ones in the house heard screaming.
For ice!
While the entire house is burning down.
Then refusing help from those,
Who came to rescue them.
Because of their ethnicity!'

'LOL...
Stop joking.
That's not funny at all.'

'You're the one laughing.
And...
If you look around,
You would still be the only one doing it!'


Scheme Abcbbdefghifjxxxxkxx xxxxxxxd cxxljxghxxmAk xxagxxx fxxxgfcm b bxxigl dbx bxec
Poetic Form Etheree  (31%)
Tetractys  (29%)
Metre 100010 0010010 01010111 101010 010 0010010110 101101001 101111 111 10101010 10 01011010 10 110110001 1110110011 11101101 1010010 10101001 01101 10111001 01011 010101 010110 1010001010 01 1 010010110 1110011010 0010010101001 11110 1 1110111 100 010101 10011 1110110 111111 11101 1010111 100010 01101101101 1 1 11101010 101111011 1111 1011011001 110 1110 11010101 101001 0111 11010011 010011110 1110001011 11 11110101 01001110 11 1001011101 1010111 111101 01110100 1 110 111011 10110 0 11101 11110101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,812
Words 380
Sentences 56
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 20, 8, 13, 7, 8, 1, 6, 3, 4
Lines Amount 70
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 155
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Written on January 08, 2024

Submitted by lpahtillah on January 08, 2024

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