Analysis of Speaking Tones
In the audible world, many sounds are documents of life, maybe never to be heard again
Speaking tones, moving volumes of air, sounding worlds of meanings, lots of history there
Centuries of masked tensions, mountains of uncertainty, brushed aside by simple laughter
Blocking and blanking out everything, never hearing fire engine sirens inside our bodies
Absolutely everything happening in the world around us, is also happening inside of us
We gloriously study the most amazing things, never knowing our lives depend on them
Inside our real world bodies, gardens and enclaves of micro plants and animals flourish
Meanwhile, fake rules of the virtual worlds we created, are wearing thin, at times useless
Powered by the absolute addiction of money, propped up minds, lost in everyday reality
Tracking every penny, plotting out grand financial courses, from production to retirement
Pillaging and plundering the Natural World every day, never totaling the damages done
We are slovenly gate keepers of the heavens we live in, paying lip service to cries of life
Mother Nature uses quantum mechanics to crank open ordinary flower petals
Spinning off visions of tangential thoughts from our great quantum computerized minds
As powerful as jet planes, only they are parked in uneven fields, never taking to the skies
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001001101110011101011101 101101011101110111001 1001110101010010111010 100101101010101010011010 010101000010111101000111 110001001010110101010111 011011101001111010010 111101001101011011110 1010100101101111010110 1010010101101010101010100 10001000100110011010001001 111001101010110101101111 1010101001011101001010 10110101011101100101 110011110111001011010101 |
Characters | 1,331 |
Words | 216 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 72 |
Words per line (avg) | 14 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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We are slovenly gate keepers of the heavens we live in, paying lip service to cries of life
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Written on 2019
Submitted by rzwilling on May 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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