Analysis of With Knowledge at Your Feet
One would think
that you’d have learned.
The past has already received
its judgment, the flames from the sky
clear in their solemn message.
Blatant guidance has been pressed
against your feet, even so
you choose ignorance
where the ancients would have chosen
to carry the burden of knowledge.
One would wonder
why your straying, wandering eyes
glanced back onto the dead.
The time has been lost
and cannot be revived for fear
of catastrophe,
but your mind has followed
the example of Lot’s dear wife
and has kicked up those salty ashes
as you claim willful opposition.
Scheme | XXXXAXXXBA XXXXXXXXXB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (45%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 111 1111 01101001 11001101 1011010 1010111 0111101 11100 10101110 110010110 1110 11101001 111001 01111 01010111 10100 111110 00101111 011111010 11110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 230 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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