Analysis of The Script of Our Lives
The script of our lives.
Bears some things that lay hidden.
Ever unfolding.
Borne from the womb to the tomb.
Imprinted in our psyche.
The psyche — our home.
It has so many mansions.
Our home and cocoon.
Of which we are conscious.
And yet remain unconscious.
Our home and cocoon.
Where we are all located.
Native residence.
From which we came — to return.
An ouroboros journey.
Life is a journey.
The journey of the psyche.
Ever unfolding.
From the dawn of creation.
Sun, moon, and stars in union.
Life is a journey.
With many transformations.
Never unceasing.
From one cycle to another.
A book without an ending.
What seems like the end.
Begins some other stages.
The chrysalis stage.
Just like the caterpillar.
Transformed to a butterfly.
The script of our lives.
Though seemingly predestined.
Requires Free Will.
And all our dispositions.
To provide it with meaning.
At its unfolding.
The script is not a blank slate.
Our parents formed it.
It has some composition.
Waiting for our completion.
Steady unfolding.
With chapters and with verses.
Is each person’s life.
That comes along with glitches.
As tasks for us to battle.
Our home, then, is the psyche.
Ever unfolding.
No ending, no beginning.
Our native cocoon.
Where we depart — and return.
At our departing.
Is pause for transformation.
At psyche’s calling.
With chance of new unfolding.
Again — to seek completion.
The script of our lives.
Whether long or whether short.
Is ours to fulfill.
Divinely crafted for us.
Ours to mold — each breath we take.
Scheme | AbCxd xeFgg Fxxhd DdCbb Decic xjxix Axkec cxxbb cjxxx dCcfh cbccb Axkgx |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (23%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 011101 1111110 10010 1101101 01001010 010101 1111010 101001 111110 010110 101001 111110 10100 1111101 1110 11010 0101010 10010 1011010 1101010 11010 110010 10010 11101010 0101110 11101 0111010 01001 110100 011010 011101 110010 01011 0110010 1011110 11010 0111011 101011 111010 10110010 10010 1100110 11101 1101110 1111110 10111010 10010 1101010 101001 1101001 110010 111010 11010 1111010 0111010 011101 1011101 110101 0101011 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,535 |
Words | 330 |
Sentences | 60 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 60 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
The script of our lives, whether long or short, is the unfolding of our lives, an unfolding that engages all of us along with the collective universal unfolding of nature in its manifold forms with its mysterious design of Oneness.
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Written on April 16, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on April 16, 2022
Modified on April 28, 2023
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