Analysis of Out From The 'Norm'



If out from the 'norm'...
Appearing weird.
Unusual and different.
To refuse and accept.
It to reject as is to expect.
Yet stays that way to taunt and neglect.
Disrespected!

Isn't that what the past has been.
Before adapting to adopt to a future,
Leaving behind...
Something new to begin.
Without repeating the old.
Coming to an end.

And yet these days many are heard to say,
Wishing for a future that comes.
Different from the one.
That came not to appreciate,
Changes made to their lives.
To normalize,
The minds of those crazed.
Wishing to return to the days,
When few could not accept...
A future that would come to be done.
Without fighting everyone,
Over their appearance.

But today making to introduce,
Hatred, bigotry and division.
With a normalizing this to show,
Madness and craze.
Homemade.
As the only way to live most know,
From a distant past their ancestors had.
Before curiosity killed innocent cats.
Minding their own business.
To dislike the appearance,
Of them doing that in public.

As if they were proud to make,
A difference made to notice.

'I hate those cats!'

'Too many of them,
Have begun to appear...
Smarter than our domesticated,
And trained dogs.
When a stick or bone is thrown,
They know what to fetch.
And bring back.
Anticipating to be rewarded,
With a snack!'

'Why can't you accept,
Cats to be independent thinkers?'

'That's what I don't like about them!


Scheme XXXABBC DXXDXX XXEXXXXFAEEG XEHFXHXIJGX XJ I KXXXXXLCL AX K
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 0101 0100100 101001 110111101 111111001 010 10110111 010101011010 1001 101101 0101001 10111 0111101111 10101011 100101 1111010 101111 110 01111 10101101 111101 010111111 011010 101010 10110101 101000010 10100111 1001 11 101011111 101011101 01010011001 101110 1010010 11101010 1110111 01001110 1111 11011 101101 101100100 011 1011111 11111 011 010011010 101 11101 11101010 11111011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,401
Words 302
Sentences 36
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 7, 6, 12, 11, 2, 1, 9, 2, 1
Lines Amount 51
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Written on April 12, 2024

Submitted by lpahtillah on April 12, 2024

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