Analysis of Thou art
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Were that there
was never the need
To give some hope,
share some belief
Having only a tiny spark
within the core
Not just of all we are here, now
All that we can ever be
Stepping back to
when the family tree
Was on its first seed.
When we were forced to cope
with scores of unknown maladies,
knowing
untold atrocities.
Struggling against
all odds
Competing for the fruits
of our desires
Before speech, writing, fire
those of our kind
even competing against
Our own kin.
As if Jesus had
an evil twin
Who existed before recorded times
Then the revolution came.
When the hopelessness
merged into the insanity.
When the shroud of destiny
obscured the apparent fate
of humanity
Cumulative, objectively,
both individually and collectively.
Cast into this world and time
seeds of our vine
bearing the fruit
of all it is we are
In depths beyond
our apparent ability
to resist our vulnerabilities,
even when the enemy
lies within
Exit our daily trials
to seek higher ground
Building
our collective consciousness
that we may climb,
spiritually ascending
towards the eventuality
that our souls
may achieve peace
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Scheme | XA BC XX XD XD A BE FE GX XX XX GH XH X X ID DXD DD JX XX XD E DH XX FI J FD XX C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011 11001 1111 1101 10100101 0101 11111111 1111101 1011 101001 11111 110111 11101100 10 010100 10001 11 010101 110010 0111010 11101 1001001 1011 11101 1101 1010010101 100101 10100 10100100 1011100 0100101 10100 10000100 10100000100 1011101 11101 1001 111111 0101 100100100 1011000100 1010100 101 10101010 11101 10 10010100 1111 10000010 01000100 1101 1011 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,207 |
Words | 269 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 29 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 53 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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