Analysis of Blessed By A Stork



Denial produced to replace it with fiction.
Has kept truth reduced.
And made offensive to many,
Who defiantly defend...
Their right to live completely deluding,
A way of life without reality to face.

A fantasized life to live,
Based upon credit to further deepen debts...
To an economy overwhelmed,
By a pretentiousness to live beyond...
More excess to not accept,
Being responsible or held accountable for it.
To ignore and expect,
The economy can survive...
On the back of alibis and accusations to make.
Done to believe this freedom feeds,
Endlessly to exist.
Is...
Nothing more than the act of a child.
Taught to perceive if a tantrum is thrown,
To continue on for awhile.
That same spoiled child,
Will grow older to believe...
No matter if the cupboards are bare.
And repeatedly shown to see,
Everything given to them to receive...
The ones who tried to fulfill their every need,
Can no longer do it.
With no money.

'Do you think money grows on trees?'

'When I asked you where your money to have,
Came from.
You told me it was paper.
And I ain't no fool to know,
Paper is made from wood.
To leave that tree to make money.
Did you lie to me?
Now...
Go chop a tree down and get what I want!'

'Who do you think I am?
Some kind of lumberjack?'

'So now you want me to believe,
You wear more than one hat?'

'You kids know nothing about sweat equity.'

'What?
What do you mean?
I've been here sweating long enough.
Hoping to get what I want.
Without listening to you to now reveal,
What it is you do...
To make my dreams come true.
Get what I want or I'll embarrass you,
Publicly!'

'Where?
Where do you kids come from?
To not grow up but become today's fools!'

'Oh?
So I wasn't dropped on the doorstep,
By a stork to deliver you a blessing from God?
Was that also another lie?'


Scheme XXAXXX BXXXXCXBXXXXDXXDEFAEXCA X XGXHXAAXI XX EX A XXXIXJJJA FGX HXXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (25%)
Etheree  (23%)
Metre 01001111110 11101 01010110 1010001 1111010010 0111011011 010111 10110110101 11010001 1011101 111101 10010011010011 101001 00100101 101110001011 11011101 100101 1 101101101 1101101011 10101101 1111 1110101 110101011 00100111 101011101 011110111001 111011 1110 11110111 1111111011 11 1111110 0111111 101111 11111110 11111 1 1101101111 111111 11110 11111101 111111 11110011100 1 1111 11110101 1011111 01100111101 11111 111111 1111110101 100 1 111111 1111101011 1 11101101 1011010101011 11100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,783
Words 399
Sentences 44
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 6, 23, 1, 9, 2, 2, 1, 9, 3, 4
Lines Amount 60
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 135
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Written on October 03, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on October 03, 2023

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