Analysis of The truth is something wonderfful



Truth is something wonderful

Beliefs are foolishness

Unless one finds the truth oneself

It could not matter less

The whole world seems to want belief

And that's no good at all

Look at the world around and see

How belief can be so cruel.

Each one says they have the answer

It's written in some book

Because they're stuck their own prisons

And never do they look

They never smell the roses

Or hear the bird's sweet song

They're too busy being right

And making others wrong.

The truth it never will be found

In the voices of another

It's found so deep within one's being

And yet we always smother

It beneath our daft beliefs

And so the world's a mess

This world is filled with foolishness

And such unhappiness.

11 January 2014 @ 1009hrs.


Scheme A B X C X X X A D E X E X F X F X D X D X C B X B
Poetic Form
Metre 1110100 011100 0111011 111101 01111101 011111 11010101 10111110 11111010 110011 01111110 010111 1101010 110111 1110101 010101 01110111 00101010 111101110 011110 10110101 010101 11111100 010100 1001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 710
Words 136
Sentences 5
Stanzas 25
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 23
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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