Analysis of Avoid That Bait
By Chris Commodore© August, 2021
Those charming, glittering, guiding lures perhaps
Are dupes to taint your merry life, O craps!
For just a little while, no rush just wait
But just for now, avoid all wily bait
That dangle everywhere in every gate;
There’s naught to gain but for to seal your fate.
In penury to likely spend your days,
Extant on scraps along life’s taxing ways
At natal stage, a perfect specimen!
Endowed with promise, grace, and acumen.
Computerized to chase and grab the sun,
And twirl the cosmos far in brazen fun.
Equipped to conquer looming hostile pain,
To craft your future moon, your sun, your rain;
To chase and tame a galloping universe,
Not ever made to ride life in reverse.
Just look around and see the towering halls,
With bounteous data stacked to crush all walls,
Gratis, go in and daily gorge your brains,
And be equipped to tame life’s hurricanes.
Such as this dirtied world contains and hurls,
Where lies are truth, but truth no value holds;
And everywhere deceivers seek to rule,
Impervious to shame and ridicule.
They claim deceit, lamenting to the skies;
Much raucous noise that echo gaudy lies,
To redact choice across the universe,
And set a stage for life spent in reverse.
Vile plans to heil tyranny at all cost,
To warrant souls repressed and tempest tossed.
May vessels rise that sport titanium sails
To ensure life choose heads and never tails.
Scheme | X AABB BBCC DDDD EEFF GGHH AXII JJFF XXKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11010010101 1111110111 1101011111 1111011101 1101001001 1111111111 0100110111 1011011101 1101001100 0111010010 010110101 0101010101 0111010101 1111011111 1101010010 1101111001 11010101001 111011111 1010010111 010111110 111110101 1111111101 0101111 010011010 1101010101 1101110101 101101010 0101111001 1111100111 1101010101 11011101001 1011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,405 |
Words | 276 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
A subtle meditation on how easy it is to be duped by the plethora of raging debates out there in every field of endeavor. So many seems more traps to elicit blind decisions and actions by so many unsuspecting victims.
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