Analysis of Mime speak
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Gazing at my life
from an obscure vantage point,
Where, it’s as if i see myself
as someone else might
Looking through the mists
my only reference point
Entwined, with others
in an evolving state
Of converging views of reality
On a course,
at best, with indeterminate cues
Navigating by means
lost in the wind and time
Within my mind, a personal realm
Where tasked to engineer the clearest reception
If, not only my perceptions
of simple truths
And reflections
shadows of certainty and doubt
Raised, by
other potential entities,
Affected by my course
in choices And perspectives
of inertial guidance
Of future primitive design
Knowing as if blind,
answers to questions
Not yet asked,
still, found at the periphery
Where imagination touches reality
Leaving myself
with an imprint of design,
Which defies logic
Not, just without a plan
Each step written freehand
To wander, beyond
the demand of the knowing
To venture
into the known, inclined,
About the axis of all that’s central
to a universal stream as it flows
about us its position, uncharted
Yet, goes everywhere
we might ever dream to be
In the unknown focused, perhaps
On some far distant place
We cannot know with these limited shells
Of energetic auras which we possess
But for a moment
save, going to the well of souls
somewhere beyond the reach of time
perhaps within a star,
with the i Dream
While others watch
and see us floundering
By the nature of our presence
Emanate an aura about ourselves,
Written into The faces of ones Like us
Readings of a clock, pulsations of energy
expressed in heartbeats
within changing tides,
As we drift, awhile
Following its current
Sensing awareness
besides our own
Whether, or not in use
a supreme entity
We are clearly not alone
We have one another
Perhaps, following
an odd set of circumstances
Something we might call humanity
Allowed intelligence to be a separate view
For us human beings to pursue
With a preferential ceding of life's necessities,
Discerning needs from wants
Only when it suits our present calling
All, while falling into a deeper well
Where we cling to a portion of
A reality of ever changing planes of being
Continuously in the process
Realigned almost as if, half existing,
Completely between the lines
Of a world which becomes
of what we make it
Of spiritual significance,
by practical design,
Relativity, of dimensions
which cross paths?
In ways beyond
insight seen,
through this brief sojourn,
of a continuum of lifetimes
Finding, too often
the particles of what matters?
To us scattered
our inheritance, abandoned
In the lost and found
a sense of order
Bound in promises
of gradually evolving
Interventions, our intentions
All, but clear, and so
As we, gather
in our collective mind
As if, rehearsed
and sign, to one another
As if, we were forbidden
by the supreme authority
To speak on this matter
of grave importance
To us, all
lost and confused because,
those of us taken by the illusion
are few and far between
And those
who cannot perform?
By false pretense
energies are spent
Our calculations
done, concluding,
We are only
skipping stones
Over the mass graves
and broken bones
Where those spoken words
led us to war
About the
very same things,
We most
lacked
and by,
not questioning
The motives of those
we supposed, best knew
The answers
only to find,
they too, lacked
Access to underlying principles
(Knowing, just the facts)
They were not the directors
Only the dancers
By whose authority
in the only means
Of thought imaginable
to the ends
Which must be achieved
We must be led
To Act
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 10111 1101101 1111111 1111 10101 1101001 01110 010101 10101110 101 11101001 10011 100101 011101001 111101010010 11101010 1101 0010 1110001 11 10010100 010111 0100010 101010 11010001 10111 10110 111 11100100 100101010 101 1101101 10110 110101 11101 11001 0011010 110 010101 0101011110 100101111 0111010010 1110 1110111 00011001 111101 1101111001 101011101 11010 11010111 1010111 010101 1011 1101 011100 101011010 1011001001 10010101111 1010111100 0101 01101 11101 100110 10010 01101 101101 001100 1110101 111010 01100 1111100 101110100 010100110101 111010101 1001010110100 010111 10111101010 1110010101 11110101 010110101110 01000001 0011111010 0100101 101101 11111 110000100 110001 01001010 111 0101 11 11110 10010011 10110 01001110 1110 100100010 00101 01110 10100 11000010 01010010 11101 1110 0100101 1101 0111010 1110100 10010100 111110 11010 111 100101 1111010010 110101 01 11001 1101 10011 10010 1010 1110 101 10011 0101 11101 1111 010 1011 11 1 01 1100 01011 10111 010 1011 111 11010100 10101 1010010 10010 110100 00101 1101000 101 11101 1111 11 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 3,724 |
Words | 786 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 80 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 150 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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