Analysis of mene mene tekel!
What shall I write amidst this generation of words and noise?
Communication is more frequent and faster than it has ever been -
communicating nothing_______________________________
Images flash before us - except a true image of ourselves.
We frown, but the clowns tell us it’s a smile.
We are taught to fly like birds but never learn to sing.
We learn to create our wildest dreams, where now is our sleep?
We can understand every creature under heaven but ignore what they say.
We pick up trash to save the planet yet abuse our beautiful bodies.
We protest for peace yet our mouths spew filth and hate at each other!
Yet the finger of truth still writes in unlooked for places:
But to accept the love that surrounds you...
you must turn away from the sins that blind you-
And accept the new heart God has for you!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110110101101 00101110010111101 01001 10010110101101001 1110111101 1111111110111 1110110101111101 1101100101010101111 1111110101011010010 1111110111011110 1010111101110 1101011011 11101101111 0010111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 822 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 649 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 147 |
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