Analysis of Motivational Musings in an Undead World



I've been wonderin'
if I can
pick it all up -

lift the solemn sentience
of yesterday's happenings
to the application
of each today.

I've forgotten
what's worth the insatiable
yearning
rushing in
with every rise of my eyelids.

I don't know
what to do with
all the time
that demands its own wasting.

Is it healthy
to simply adjust
to the manufactured rhythms
of our taxidermied days?

Is it a fool's game
to follow the paths available -
balancing the world tucked into
the cavities of my mind
and the one that makes me
feel like the illusion -
still hoping to find the loophole
in this world's caveat emptor?

Maybe it is.
Maybe not.
Maybe this generation will
see its undead desires
met by a response from
an Earth with little left to give.
The mineral reality setting
available for any possible world
dictates which are sustained by illusion.

If all empires must fall,
my heart is gladdened
that the Earth is the final victor -
let this Empire of Mind, Conquest, & Commerce
 wake up to its own delusions.

I'm waking up
to the potential
of dreaming the world alive.


Scheme AAB CCAD AEFAC AXXF GXCC XEXXGAXH CXXCXXFXA XDHCC BEX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (36%)
Metre 111 111 1111 10101 110100 10010 1101 1010 1100100 10 100 11001111 111 1111 101 1011110 1110 11001 1001010 11011 11011 110010100 10001101 0100111 001111 110010 1101101 0111010 1011 101 1010101 111010 110011 11110111 01001010 01001101001 0111011010 1110011 1111 101101010 11100111010 11111010 1101 10010 1100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,018
Words 193
Sentences 11
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 5, 4, 4, 8, 9, 5, 3
Lines Amount 45
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on January 28, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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