Analysis of The Paradox
Robert Rittel 1960 (Koblenz)
With everyday under protected skies,
we come across some traitors lives.
Promised solution to all complexes,
riches beyond faint heart perplexes.
Adoration by fame benediction,
bargains without guilt affliction.
The patriot and his free ticket vote,
righteousness that need some promote.
Fees for the clamorous priest,
words of comfort in the least.
Stones and graves as memorandum,
dust to dust and its bleeding phantom.
Bubbles to buy in ounces of gold,
it’s the story as package to be sold.
The price to know God for asking,
resuming whole souls tasking.
Imitation of immortality without death,
lyrics and rhymes already in breath.
Scientific prophesies as politic conclusion,
sweetest moments of delusion.
Medias senses of what is right in time,
feeding the truth through a costly plastic frame.
Enslaving oneself by far more credit,
for the children to know its inherit.
The dying dream with its inspiration,
ceased moments lost in translation.
The placid and self contained condition,
takes forms in transparent definition.
As term-less feast of our content,
souls are more then body meant.
Wasted time in displeased self-assertion,
no values after deeds in resignation.
The greatest tragedy of the world in confusion,
the lack of awareness in spiritual evolution.
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Metre | 1101100101 11011101 1001011100 100111010 01011010 10011010 0100011101 10011101 11011 1110001 1011010 111011010 101101011 1010110111 01111110 0101110 01010100011 100101001 010100110010 10101010 110111101 10011010101 1111110 1010111010 010111010 11010010 0100101010 110010010 111111010 1111101 1010011010 1101010010 0101001010010 01101001000010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,239 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 34 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,035 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 199 |
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Submitted on February 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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