Analysis of What the future abides
Once upon the mind
memories appear dancing,
to the cadence of my peddling...
so occupied in trifling.
So engrossed in times long past,
as many elders usually do.
Times of great purpose, or those painfully true...
Weighing them with today's scrambled, foggy view.
Thoughts about the children, as retrospection collides;
shaking heads confused at what the future abides.
The changes so erratic, only to get worse...who decides...
whom will have legitimacy, ot turn aside?
What will happen when Wisdom becomes dust?
Truth and Wisdom must be earned such as trust.
The young think elders have tough crusts...
complexity has stolen honor and forgiveness for lusts.
Scheme | XAAA XBBB CCCX DDXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 10101 1000110 101011100 110010 1010111 1101010001 11110111001 10110110101 1010101101 101011101001 0101010101111 111010001101 1110110011 1010111111 01110111 010011010001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on August 21, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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