Analysis of Your Original Sin
What’s that you’ve settled for?
What’s that you say?
From the library of excuses
You reason away
It seems almost this
But never quite that
As the present escapes
And you look further back
No comfort to take
In that notch on your gun
As you fire in vain
And continue to run
But you say it’s enough
It will then have to do
You repeat what’s been spoken
Never anything new
And you look for a club
Others thinking the same
To plead their excuses
Blaspheme and profane
But alone in the vestibule
A soul fires away
And speaks about life
And its maxims today
His message reoffered
But again you look back
The last sinners you follow
Leaving motherless tracks
Your death now committed
To the lies that you’ve told
And your headstone engraved
With letters that scold
Once eternity beckoned
With your eyes looking up
And drawing strength from it
You drank from its cup
But that story’s been told
You’re alone in the ground
Scant little reminder
You were ever around
As your bones become dust
To be reclaimed by the wind
Those excuses you trusted
—your original sin
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)
Scheme | XABAXXXCXDEDXFDFXXBEXAXAXCXXXGXGXHXHGIXIXXXX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 011101 0111 10101010 11001 1111 11011 101001 011101 11011 011111 111001 001011 111101 111111 1010110 10101 011101 101001 111010 1001 1010010 011001 01011 011001 110010 101111 0110110 101001 111010 101111 01101 11011 1010010 111101 010111 11111 11111 101001 110010 101001 111011 1101101 1010110 101001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,071 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 44, 1 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 441 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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