Analysis of Seek Wisdom From This Distant Object
Searching the vast heavens above and seeking a connection
to a single pure thought which has brought earthly birth
lividly peering out upon and into the mists and mysteries
cast off by weight of blissless desire and sordid design.
Caught weaponless and void of the power of and for war
your visions circling the true gift of creations thoughts
the souls of mortally decrepit human educated minds are
lost entirely in broken schemes of sacrilegious frights.
A conscious being thus dismembered forgets its powers
and loses focus as does the common moral compass of the
larger society to which it is so deathly tied and bound
bringing a life's journey, pictures from an unholy abyss.
From a distance comes an object that promises clarity and
deliverance from the toil of our bare and misguided lives
touching a point in each of us with its wisdom showing
all truthful beings how the wickedly wise serpent dies.
Scheme | XXAX XXXA XXXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 100110010100010 101011111101 110101001010100 11111101001001 110110101011 11010001110101 0111000101010011 10100010110101 01010101001110 0101011010101010 1001001111110101 100110101101001 1010111011001000 0100101110100101 10010111111010 11010101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 892 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on September 05, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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