Analysis of Fatalism
I will always set upon my way
with a river commencing on its own...
The river is very narrow
and I don't believe it will enlarge
my fate.
The only thing I hope for
is speed.
Praise be to Apollo
you a being so incredible
I will dream of you all at one go.
But walking along
the Dream will be transformed into nightmare
because from the anonymous cries
exasperated waves
will clash with the shores of the World
which can be heard sharp and clear.
You who with theatrics
and the speed of rivers
wanted to crown human visions
withdraw now with Idealism both of you defeated
and see how hopelessly has been flooded
the Promised Land.
And thus the river has put into gear my Dreams
which will apparently endow
the waterfalls with winged abilities
and that same moment when all the world
will be pulled down
my Dreams will be lifted high.
But I along with the Dreams
also have my own life to live.
They have sworn
that the one will never part from the other
and its beside the point that on the road
the naive buyers of hope stretched out their hands...
and even more beside the point
that around life and the Dreams
there is in force a hostile space...
and the weighty life can be smashed to bits
by this violent fall.
But then again who knows?
The Holy River is perhaps sad
about wretched life
and this savage fall...
omnipotent...
tempestuous...
inevitable...
as if the trees along the coast had been transformed
into humble supplicants
it carries it out without a hitch!
Because just so you'll know
oh! you the fortunate ones on earth
from the moment the rivers sent me forth
all of the emotions which escaped the catastrophe
I then scattered at the entrance to the seas
and as they will be dressed in my own fate
they will stand in for me in the open sea
never to return again to this earth so desolate.
It would be better if this...occurred!
Who knows what's going on in this eternal damnation
since not everyone has the possibility
of ascending as the Blissful
or descending as the Unfortunate...
and as they surrender to this tragic
helplessness
the only answer to the question
What does it mean to have once existed on this Earth?
they interpret as boiling down to
never having the possibility
of ever going back...
toward eternal tranquility...
these rivers.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 1010010111 01011010 011011101 11 0101111 11 111010 101010100 111111111 11001 011101011 011001001 01001 11101101 1111101 11110 001110 10111010 01110100111010 0111001110 0101 010101101111 11010001 010110100 011101101 1111 1111101 1101101 10111111 111 10111011010 0101011101 0110111111 01010101 1011001 11010101 0010111111 111001 110111 010101011 01101 01101 0100 100 01000 110101011101 01101 110110101 011111 110100111 1010010111 11001010100100 11101010101 0111110111 11101100101 10101011111100 1111011 11110101010010 1110100100 10101010 1010100100 0110101110 100 010101010 1111111010111 101011011 101000100 110101 010100100 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,525 |
Words | 413 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 2, 3, 6, 6, 6, 2, 9, 10, 8, 1, 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 71 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on March 07, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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