Analysis of Common Causes



Few, if any, accept to believe,
A lieing to deceive others...
Is no different than spreading,
A quick to infect communal disease.
And leaving this sickening illness,
Left just as effective...
As poison to feed it.
Internally.
To those unsuspecting,
They have gobbled it up as suggested.
Without concern or care,
As to who prepared...
What they were fed to eat.
To then share and recommend,
This to others met where they meet.

Not yet has there been an urgent need,
For a vaccine to be created preventing...
Lies being told to purposely deceive.
Or quarantine the ones,
Who are habitual infectors.
Injecting their unsuspecting wickedness.

Although...
The innocent can not be blamed.
Anything nibbled upon to be sweet,
Is not to them thought as venom.
This activity is treated,
No more with interest...
Than a headache to get.
If that should occur.
Or the flu.
Now given a season,
To anticipate and expect its arrival.
Given a normalized part of life to live.

Like...
Well,
Similar to the telling of lies.
Told without imagination or suspense.
That has become,
As common as destroying people's lives.
But this done to do,
Is not considered to cause...
Division, conflict or hypocrites to exist!
Everywhere and everyday,
Not rumored to hear it.
But seen on streets urban or suburban.
Gone ignored by the boredom of it done!


Scheme ABCXDXEXCFXXGXG XCAXBD XXGHFXXXIJXX XXXXHXIXXXEJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 111001101 0110110 11100110 0110101001 010110010 111010 110111 0100 11010 1110111010 010111 11101 110111 111001 11101111 111111101 10111010010 1101110001 11001 1101001 0101010100 1 01001111 101001111 11111110 10100110 11110 10111 11101 101 110010 10100011010 1001011111 1 1 100101011 1010010101 1101 1101010101 11111 1101011 01010110101 100101 110111 1111101010 1011010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,323
Words 273
Sentences 31
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 15, 6, 12, 13
Lines Amount 46
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 258
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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Submitted by lpahtillah on March 01, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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