Analysis of Mors Spiritualis
Spiritual pornography
who is to blame
The prophets the poets
lascivious shame
With prurient verses
stark naked their prose
Defaming what’s virgin
their lust to impose
And when they have finished
exposing their ruse
They choke on its meaning
and die self-abused
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
The truth stands in contrast
to only itself
Once mentioned eternal
when thought and then felt
It lives in the ether
past fortune or fame
Conscripted by conscience
no praise and no blame
The truth beyond reason
beyond lies or consent
The lucky among us
to follow its scent
Its trail leads to faith
divinity’s pew
Transforming the moment
— you first say I do
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
Freezing The Moment
Are you the
lead actor
within your own myth
The script
ever changing
the past in its crypt
Can you freeze
the moment
with only one word
The Angel’s
applauding
— the devil unheard
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
Politicians
endow a sword
to the few
— to command the many
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
Learning more
about less and less
Feeling torn
in great duress
Faith attacked
we hide from myths
Real love scorned
— ourselves we kiss
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
Marx In Hell
Political salvation
the god of failure
Beatifying the collective
— on the devil’s throne
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
The brighter the glare
we discover around us
The darker the light
stays hidden within
Secular salvation
a digital failure
God’s imminent nature
— indistinguishable from ours
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
‘Sage To The Court Jester …’
God’s truth — Man’s truth
bridging the difference
trust in the Muse
(Rosemont College: February, 2024)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10000100 1111 010010 01001 110010 11011 1010 11101 011110 01011 111110 01101 110100 011010 11001 110010 11011 110010 11011 010110 11011 010110 011101 010011 11011 11111 11 010010 11111 110100 10010 110 110 01111 01 1010 01011 111 010 11011 010 010 01001 110100 010 0101 101 101010 110100 101 01101 101 0110 101 1111 111 00111 110100 101 0100010 01110 10010 10101 110100 01001 1010011 01001 11001 100010 010010 110010 001000110 110100 110110 1111 100100 1001 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,817 |
Words | 327 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 24 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1, 16, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1, 4, 1, 8, 1, 1, 4, 1, 8, 1, 1, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 78 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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