Analysis of When (Not If)



- women stop believing that their power lies in their looks and men respectively under the ends of the sleeves at their short-sleeved shirts, and both genders exclude their lingerie content from competing with each other,
- peace wins in all wars, and love prevails over hate,
- money ceases to be the "purpose" and becomes the "instrument" for at least the vast majority of people,
- religions cease to distinguish people only in 'faithful' and 'unbelieving' but only in good and more or less good,
- borders do not divide warring peoples, but only serve to determine areas that once upon a time some ancestors of some people lived,
- factories that currently manufacture weapons and population-destroying material, as well as, other beings and nature without distinction, start producing renewable energies materials, such as today's solar panels, and the like or similar to be discovered in the future,
- the words tall, short, thick, weak, ugly, indifferent and beautiful, come out of people's vocabulary,
- people follow their hearts and not their interests ...

.... well, then, people on our Earth will have the joy and happiness of living as humans, and the whole Earth will become "Promised Land".

PS.
Yes, I know this seems to be a lot, but no one said that  the "Promised Land" is easily won!


Scheme AXXXXAXB X BX
Poetic Form
Metre 101010111010110101001001101111110110011101010101110 110110101101 1010110100010100111010100110 01011010101001000101100101111 10110110101101101010011010111011101 10011000101000100100100111101001001010101001001000100110110100011100110100010 011111100100100111100100 10101101110 11101101110101001101100011101101 1 11111110111111010111001
Characters 1,337
Words 224
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 1, 2
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 96
Words per line (avg) 20
Letters per stanza (avg) 351
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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Submitted by sifis on September 21, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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