Analysis of Without decree
Without the force of law
Known not the official order
Only known by what it produced
A schooling and a border
Books instead of bans on deforestation
Shops that sell the dead
That then 'walk' back to the farm for us to visit and their fur spread
Parks that grow and rust
Payed and played seas
Landfill instead of dust
Cemeteries or mass graves
Or burnings instead or ashes sewn
Roads that lead to houses
And their endless message grown
Or fields left to be mowed
A flowery extinction in tow
People talking in accents
That deep down we already know
A God with endless faces
Oneness in greater good
What is creators decree
Oh how it exists despite me!
And with me merely pink snow
Without the poison afterglow
Then without decree
I find the meaning of me?
Am I light? Am I love?
A holy spirit? A holy dove?
A violet flame? An energy?
A narrative? A darkness?
Greater good? A collective?
A purpose? A directive?
An expression? A God spark?
A devine vessel? A time frame?
A number? A symbol?
A reading? A vapour?
Just me...? And my mind.
Scheme | ABCBDEEFGFHIJIKLMLJNOOLLOOPPOQRRSTUBV |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111 11001010 10111101 0100010 1011110010 11101 1111101111100111 11101 1011 10111 100111 110011101 111110 0110101 111111 010001001 1010010 11110101 0111010 100101 1101001 11101011 0111011 0101010 10101 1101011 111111 010100101 010011100 0100010 1010010 0100010 1010011 00110011 010010 01001 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,039 |
Words | 207 |
Sentences | 25 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 37 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 812 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 192 |
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Written on November 10, 2023
Submitted by heathert.34240 on November 10, 2023
Modified by heathert.34240 on November 10, 2023
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