Analysis of Inalienable Rights
The known prognosis was indeed dire,
Any dubious cure itself a braided noose;
Option's mind-field of expedient desire,
Would find death the preferable excuse.
Perhaps the mostly neglected exercise,
Of choosing time and place is possible;
Usurping fate's presumptuous surprise,
Would truly dignify a demise while able.
Forget trying to find that comfort zone,
Sparingly curtailed by repeated insults;
This is a destination reckoned all alone,
Flying in face of conventional gestalts.
Let religion choke on it's pie in the sky,
Words' effects all filtered in superstition;
As I came to know the real truth n' why,
My divinity already gave me permission.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DXDA EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010101011 101001010101 101110100010 1110100001 0101001010 1101011100 101010001 11010001110 0110111101 10001101001 11001010101 1001101001 10101111001 1011100010 1111101111 1010001011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on November 08, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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