Analysis of Progress



To those not yet born
 someone
 with intense Biblical care in the use of reason
 will declare
 that we had been promised in life
 that no matter how we behave in life
 transcending the fragments of any and all questions
 directly
 we will have insured
                                           ourselves a place among the Just.

Those who have not been born
 by the time we leave
 will be filling our empty place...
 they will live it just as we did
 completely undisciplined...and very badly.

In such a case
 it will be hard for them to believe in the promise
 that despite all that
 they will die as the Just.


Scheme ABBXCCXDXE AXFXD FXXE
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 1 1011001001110 101 11111001 1110110101 0100101100110 010 11101 001010101 111111 10111 111010101 11111111 01011010 0101 1111111010010 10111 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 596
Words 106
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 10, 5, 4
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 147
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on January 06, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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