Analysis of Defiling The Unknown
There’s no bigger threat
than what’s still left to know
Its backbone religion,
as it sits on its throne
What cannot be stated
and proven as fact
Evangelists kidnap
and wear on their backs
With prophecy wrapped
in their folly misled
What’s still undiscovered,
leaves dogma undead
But then when the darkness
moves into light
Revivalists shout,
claiming: “See, we were right”
Leaving two kinds of liars
in this world to be shown
Those twisting the truth
—and those defiling the unknown
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)
Scheme | AX XB XX XX XX XA XC XC XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 101111 11010 111111 110110 01011 01001 01111 11001 011001 01010 1101 111010 1011 11 101101 1011110 011111 11001 011001 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 514 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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