Analysis of Soul Searching Solstice



Naive I grow in an aging mode,
Assured beliefs I question,
My foes of most,
Revealed to me,
Humane and sincere,
It’s somewhat clear,
Yet wrong they still perchance to be,
as I long for sanity,
In a unified field theory
of humanity.

Is it wisdom or indecision,
Understanding or delusion,
I do not know,
My mind to and fro
making sense of the nonsense
that exists in our presence.

As far as I still can tell,
The sin of initiated force,
Remains the tenet of human course,
But the question still reigns,
When did the tort initiate.

And how does it stop,
Before the reciprocal blinding of eyes
makes the whole world blind--
of hope and love and peace in kind.

The heart and the head with empathy and  reason,
Liberty with love is one message for the season.


Scheme XAXBCCBBBB AADDXX XEEXX XXFF AA
Poetic Form
Metre 11101101 0101110 1111 0111 01001 1111 11110111 1111100 0010110 10100 111010010 0101010 1111 11101 1011010 10101010 1111111 01101001 010101101 101011 1101010 01111 01001001011 10111 11010101 010011100010 1001111101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 769
Words 167
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 10, 6, 5, 4, 2
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 28

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Soulful re-evaluation

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Written on December 22, 2022

Submitted by kenfreedomrings on December 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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