Analysis of God Breaks the Chains (Sestina Poetry)
Alas, when nothing ever goes my way
I try to keep my goals within my sight.
I hope that they can lead to joy someday,
While overpass this metaphoric night.
Among those crazy things leading to doom,
I am quite melancholic in the gloom.
My life may be infected with the gloom,
When darkness spreads its wicked wings on the way.
In waiting for the approach of next doom,
I am the girl in search for nature's sight.
When jagged rocks pinch and stick me overnight,
I search that something lifting me someday.
My faith grows stronger, and I hope someday
That winds of change will enlighten the gloom.
Faith, love, and truth will be like stars at night,
Life will be as bright as the Milky Way,
As long as rightness will be brought to sight,
And lie will be a sticky bomb of doom.
I utter an impending sense of doom
Like poison killing everything someday
Or wet flowers shaking at the wind's sight.
We end with hope, and we begin in gloom,
While we're changing our lives along the way.
We're making sense of all from day to night.
As fears are left unspoken in the night,
We feel this ending as the latest doom.
Sad minds still try to find a living way,
Hoping that they will save themselves someday.
They make important changes in the gloom.
Religious leaders teach Christian sight,
When wisdom is the synonym of sight,
And blind guides are to lead the blinds at night.
Some begin with the hope to end in gloom,
Between those sinful acts leading to doom,
Praying to God to save their souls someday.
Against all odds, they try to find their way.
At Siloam, the blind received his sight.
In working faith, the blind could leave his night
God breaks the chains, we need to leave the gloom.
Scheme | ABABCC CACBBA ACBABC CABCAB BCAACB BBCCAA BBC |
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Poetic Form | Sestina (68%) |
Metre | 0111010111 1111110111 111111111 110111 0111011011 111010001 1111010101 11011101101 0101001111 1101011101 1111011101 111101011 111100111 1111101001 1101111111 1111110101 1111011111 0111010111 1101010111 11010101 1110101011 1111010101 11101010101 1101111111 1111010001 1111010101 1111110101 101111011 1101010001 010101101 110101011 0111110111 1011011101 0111011011 101111111 0111111111 11010111 0101011111 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,662 |
Words | 316 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 3 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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