Analysis of The indictment
In all Seasons
I would be able to charge you
with having stolen half my life
in my thinking of you.
The half of my life
which unfolded on this Earth
despite knowing what a disaster would occur
in the thoughts of the living
when by means of the terrible monotony of processions
the depressing result would be announced
of the battle with the patrons
of temporary Existence.
That is also why you were in a hurry
to steal half of the Earth from me
as long as I was thinking about sleeping with you.
The half of my sleep
which unfolded in the Sky
not worried that it would be challenged by a God
from the time when you...
you were dreamlike only on Earth
laying the foundations thus for the Idea
of Eternal Hypnosis
despite the fact we know that Dreams were scandalized
when they were calculated with the dimensions of the Heavens
that was Idea you were wearing
in order to confront
the fierce human winter
impossible to violate.
Because you remained untouched by any desires
all agreements have been broken.
And you accepted walking once more on the Earth
despite the fact you knew there awaited you
the indifference of the wasteland...
But you wanted to climb up to the Sky
knowing that you were outside the love of the living
despite the fact that at the Gate of the heart
you can feel a large multitude
of stars awaiting you there.
Nevertheless I have withdrawn
to the dry lands of the indictment
and rule there on my own.
A strange kingdom this one of mine
having no one at my beck and call
and without being a candle for anyoneÕs fate.
Despite all that setting off now
for my one and only fortune
I see thousands of daydreamers quarrelling
about the matter of the bequest.
Happiness...by dear visionaries
is non-existent in the wealth of this property
but in that way...to my surprise
being truly open to the blessings or the blasphemies
of Heaven...
there will be built on it the white Temples of Theology
for the People who even after all this vain futility
will try the Luck
of Existence here on Earth.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110 11110111 11010111 011011 01111 1010111 011010010101 0011010 1111010001001010 0010011101 10101010 1100010 11101100010 11110111 1111110011011 01111 1010001 110111110101 10111 1011011 100010110010 1010010 01011111010 110100100101010 110101010 010101 011010 01001100 0110101110010 10101110 010101011101 01011110101 00100101 1110111101 1011011011010 01011101101 1110110 1101011 0011101 101110010 011111 01101111 101111101 0011001011011 01111011 11101010 1110111 010101001 111000 1101000111100 1011101 1010101010101 110 111111011010100 1010110101110100 1101 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 2,169 |
Words | 371 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 3, 13, 2, 8, 3, 3, 4, 9 |
Lines Amount | 57 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on March 04, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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