Analysis of A Truth Law



Violence gives rise
to violence, not justice.
That is a Truth Law.

So cease all warfare,
which is fostered by hatred,
not Brotherly Love.


Scheme XXX XXX
Poetic Form Sedoka 
Metre 10011 1100110 11011 1111 1110110 11001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 138
Words 29
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 3
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 12

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All forms of violence stem from hatred and do no engender peace.

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Written on January 28, 2024

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 28, 2024

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Liebe Mili’ (translated into English as “Dear Mili”), Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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