Analysis of Critical Mass
I fancy an age that does not yet exist.
When insight and reason are allowed to persist.
That helps us find details that are so often missed.
So that act without thinking isn't so much a twist.
The enclaves are trenched in their group minded ways.
With safety in numbers they hate women and gays.
Or seeking to ostracize any that strays.
To destroy any "others" to the end of their days.
Surrounded by people who decide on their own.
Who evaluate evidence and data that's shown.
That don't need to pedestal or dogma enthrone.
That do not demand each and all be a clone.
With shrewdness of mind and skeptical will
they avoid unreasoned urges that tell them to kill.
With no spite for those who don't quite fit the bill
that town, church, or nation works to instill.
When debate has a value instead of just sass.
Without flights of fancy that lead to impasse.
With no congregation to enforce the morass.
So that more than are not form a Critical Mass.
Scheme | AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD EEEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011111101 11010101101 111101111101 1110110101101 0111011101 110010111001 1101101011 1011010101111 01011011111 101010001011 11111001101 11101101101 1101101001 10111011111 11111111101 1111101101 101101001111 01111011101 11010101001 111111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 939 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on April 28, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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