Analysis of The Dark Truth



Academia blocks real knowledge,
  Native Peoples will attest

So many wrappings covering their lies,
  each field does then arrest

With logic and ethics pointing the way,
  their path leads further down

Young minds abandoned, thoughts astray,
  pontificates espouse

Academia buries the truth
  then wears it like a crown

Claiming it only for itself,
  its charlatans abound

Attacking all others points of view
  with ink to cut and maim

Touting themselves, they flounder and drift
   —a victim of their game

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)


Scheme XA XA BC BX XC XX XD XD X
Poetic Form
Metre 01001110 1010101 110110011 111101 1100101001 111101 11010101 01001 01001001 111101 10110101 110001 010110111 111101 100111001 010111 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 533
Words 83
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 08, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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