Analysis of Propaganda
“Does the wind blow today?”
will I be shoved from behind
through a small, unnoticeable crevice into
an unlike world where my thoughts run
in all directions at once
never quite assembling at day’s end
leaving me utterly confused but happy?
“Does the wind blow elsewhere?”
will I be let to stand where I should please
to observe this place where I live
ignoring its ugliness and recognizing
but making excuses for
its selfishness
pretending to be satisfied with the answer?
“Does the wind blow at all?”
or have I been betrayed all along into believing
in falsehoods and justifications
using them as cornerstones on which to base
religion and politics…
would I rather be here where I can’t know if it’s all a lie
or be some place where I know it is?
Scheme | X XXXXXX X XXAXXX X AXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101 1111101 10111001 10111111 0101011 1010100111 10110001110 10111 1111111111 10111111 01011000100 1100101 1100 01011101010 101111 11110110101010 0100010 1011101111 010010 111011111111101 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 771 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 1, 6, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on March 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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