Analysis of Human Irony #5 Bizarre

Seah Ray 1962 (United States)



Human Irony #5 Bizarre

when 'another' mounts
life's
balance bar

we lean in
with crooked finger
on chin

expecting
'10'

no less by far--

never
a miss;

yet,
in all our
'professed'

'intelligence'
and
'ability'

upon our turn
on
life's narrow beam

we
claim
'imperfection'

in
'remiss'.

'Please dismiss!'
On this insist--

For
'Recompense'

We scream
with our mouth widely
ajar...

Not for 'correction' or 'direction'...

Just for 'another's'
absolute
perfection?

How humanly bizarre...

"“Stop judging that you may not be judged;

for with the judgment you are judging, you will be judged, and with the measure that you are measuring out, they will measure out to you.

Why, then, do you look at the straw in your brother’s eye but do not notice the rafter in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Allow me to remove the straw from your eye,’ when look! a rafter is in your own eye?

Hypocrite! First remove the rafter from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to remove the straw from your brother’s eye." Matt. 7:1-5.

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Poetic Form
Metre 1010001 10101 1 101 110 11010 11 010 1 1111 10 01 1 0110 01 0100 0 0100 01101 1 1101 1 1 010 0 01 101 1101 1 10 11 110110 01 110101010 11010 10 010 110001 110111111 11010111011110101011110011110111 1111110101101111100100111 111111110011101011111101010111 1010101011110111110110101111011 11011111001010011001001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,190
Words 240
Sentences 17
Stanzas 23
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 44
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 9

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Human Ironies

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Written on May 25, 2022

Submitted by Hospitalityprovided4u on May 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Seah Ray

Me? ... Wife, daughter, sister, friend, teacher--of the Bible, Above all....A worshiper of Jehovah and an imitator, at least I try to be, of Jesus, His beloved Son. I also have many other loves: Music, art, literature, dance, crafts, etc. Why I must live forever :-) more…

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