Analysis of The Watchful
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Not sure
How this whole thing went
from blessed life in the garden
to sup and dine with the divine…
To lost hope and an inability to speak
In the language of the love.
Perhaps, someone trusted with the gift
Got careless, lost or foolish …
got cast adrift
Lost faith and went astray, perhaps
Fell into bad company …got misaligned,
laid down with swine,
Sold their soul for cheap sex and wine
Abandoning all contact with the most high
The fountain of youth went dry…
And the blessed state of being which had existed
Between one sphere of influence and the next
Got corrupted/Left us… as adversaries
All civility …became lost in our missteps
As our willingness to understand …
slipped
Mistakes, became …
our new routine
Lost confidence …
in our ability to learn
Lost sight …
of our dream
Began continuously to get burned
Lost our grip. We lost hope. Went awry
Continued, endlessly to fall…
Damn, near Lost it, all…
Demons lurk …
they’re on the prowl
Searching out signs of weakness to exploit
Or signs of strength, they can corrupt.
They’re out and about
to bring the hurt,
There are those
worthy of your support
Remember that love rules…
Although we saw
distortions in the wind
Like a serpent
closing for the kill
Despite the fact
that evil ones attack the good
(because it’s their nature)
And when the tides turn
(As they always do)
The devils are going
to get their due(schooled)
Black smoke
first sang out in alarm
Announcing evil
was about armed
From our vantage point…
beyond the stars
Knowing the prophesy,
written in our souls
Particles crossed dimensions
phased in and out of existence,
living as pure energy…
Divine winds
became temporal…
Looking inside out
we know what’s coming
The universe spiraled,
its infinitive galaxies
The Galactic equilibrium,
began to shift…
Coded particles, coalesced
in orchestral melodies…
Natural motions
among the stars went still
The planets left orbit
on their own free will
Spun upon their axis,
just for the thrill…
On a spiritual plane
big enough
for all of us to live…
Before God… Made
in diverse social structures
that we might find
the right system
To further
our collective development
And freely choose
our angle of trajectory
To advance
and consolidate our gains
In accordance with a design
Worthy …and true
With humility
in the divine will
for all mankind The chosen sent
to enhance and pursue free will
With cohesion for justice
and stability, on call…
Rather, than watch
the wretched few… take all
To live or die,
for stolen wealth
no longer
In our purview
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 11111 1110010 11011001 11101010011 0010101 01110101 1101110 1101 11010101 101110011 1111 11111101 0100111011 0101111 001111011010 01111100001 1010111100 1010001101001 110100101 1 0101 10101 1100 010010011 11 1101 0101000111 1101111101 01010011 11111 101 1101 101111011 11111101 11001 1101 111 101101 010111 111 010001 1010 10101 0101 11010101 011110 01011 1111 010110 11111 11 111001 01010 1011 110101 0101 1001 100101 1001010 10011010 1011100 011 01100 10011 11010 01010 10100100 00100100 0111 1010001 0010100 10010 010111 010110 11111 101110 1101 1010001 101 111111 0111 0011010 1111 0110 110 100100100 0101 101010100 101 0010101 00101001 1001 10100 00011 11110101 10100111 1010110 0010011 1011 010111 1111 1101 110 0101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,763 |
Words | 583 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 55 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 106 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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