Analysis of Blinding Common Sense



Impossible it is not to notice or mention,
The many ethnic faces in places proving...
To be competent, intelligent and wise.
And more reliable to depend upon,
To get accomplish tasks needed to do.
Than others who fear,
Having their pretensions replaced.
Imitating a fiction to delude,
Beginning to fade away...
The image of greatness.
As truth invades,
Their charade of a masquerade.
For centuries displaying dishonesty.
Cloaking a democracy,
Achieved successfully...
By the diversity of the people.
Not only to see it but also to believe.

And perhaps this fact,
Of a way of life enjoyed.
Has begun to annoy,
The many who perceive...
They have cause and reason,
To remain on the right...
Out of the light to reside in darkness.

A darkness.
Without shadows.
Where they can weaponize,
Their dimming minds.
Finding chaos and conflict.
A decision.
To choose to defend and protect,
An absence of color.
That has come to blind,
Whatever is left of their common sense.
Gone from their conscious minds.
If any remnants of it,
Can be rescued and declared detected!


Scheme AXBXXXXXXCXXDDDXE XXXEAXC CXBFXAXXXXFXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0100111110110 010101001010 11100010001 01010010101 1101011011 11011 1010101 100010101 0101101 010110 1101 1011001 11000100100 1000100 010100 1001001010 110111110101 00111 1011101 101101 010101 111010 101101 1101101010 010 011 1111 1101 1010010 0010 11101001 110110 11111 101111101 111101 1101011 1110001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,020
Words 178
Sentences 24
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 17, 7, 13
Lines Amount 37
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 277
Words per stanza (avg) 59
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Submitted by lpahtillah on September 16, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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