Analysis of Written in stardust
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Were that we
were not cast adrift.
Our mortal souls
spinning wildly out of control
With the faintest hope
carried only by the faithful
Given as a gift to we
the undeserving
Whose sacrifice
is made
to save the unworthy
In hopes this will serve
to allow us all,
the willing in the struggle
to find our way back
within ourselves
Tracing back person by person
from One love
Lost amidst corruption, greed
and lust for power
of those whose souls
who have sold out
their children’s future.
As lives like stars
fly through
the vacuum of space,
as time sweeps clean footprints
of what we believe of
as accomplishments
playing out among us
as oceans of stardust
pass and in prayer
we ask for forgiveness,
purpose, guidance and wisdom
to supplement our vision.
As it is written
in the script of God’s Plan
Our space inside a capsule of time
In the eternal battlefield
of good versus evil
Where facial recognition is not a reliable test
Of wrongful acts/from righteousness.
How we yearn to know
who will remain untouched
Beyond horizons of the lifetime
of our mindsight
From which the spirit seed
has grown and gone
Abandoned this
shell of flesh upon death
To walk into divine light
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Scheme | AB CX XD AX XXA EXD XX FG HI CXI XXX XGX JX XJ XF FX KXD XJ XX KB HX XX X E |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 01101 10101 10101101 10101 10101010 1010111 0010 110 11 110010 01111 10111 0100010 111011 01001 10110110 111 1010101 01110 1111 1111 11010 1111 11 01011 11111 111011 10100 101011 11011 1001 111010 1010010 11001010 11110 001111 1010101011 0001010 111010 11001011001001 11011100 11111 110101 01010101 1101 110101 1101 0101 111011 1101011 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,259 |
Words | 274 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 24 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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