Analysis of Indoctrinating



Who has not from birth,
Discovered to find intoxicating...
A practicing to rehearse,
An indoctrination thirst.
To learn lessons taught,
That will seduce all minds...
With beliefs of success achieved,
Determines upon the things we get.
And where they were purchased.
For no other purpose but just to impress.

Who has not from birth felt worthless.
When scrutinized from head to toe.
First for our ethnic heritage.
Then questioned about,
The ancestral blood...
Flowing through our veins.
Blue.
Before the mixture of air turns it red.

Who has not from birth,
Felt it a must they should defend...
A life blessed to be given.
To then compare,
Who is valued and has more worth.
Although descendents we all are,
Of both Cain and Able.
Products produced by Adam and Eve.
Where in the Garden of Eden...
Sins were created and deception conceived.

And still today,
Throughout a history to teach it...
In ways fiction to delude.
There are people,
Of various races to prove...
No one is exclusively pure of anything.
Accept an ignorance to defend.
And the absence of knowing,
The reality and truth of our existence.
With many trying to end,
A diversity they have been taught to believe...
Would leave humanity better off,
If their own ancestors, historically...
Had been color free.

'No one is born to be color free.'

I know this to notice it.
You know this to notice it.
And yet there are those,
Who refuse to accept...
The truth that exposes,
Our continous allegiance.
Pledged to the maintaining,
The keeping of our own ignorance defended.


Scheme Abxxxxcdxx xxxxexxx Afgxaxhigc xdxhxbfbjfixkk k ddxxxjbe
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 010110100 0100101 100101 11101 110111 10110101 010010111 011010 11101011101 11111110 1101111 111010100 11001 00101 101101 1 0101011111 11111 11011101 0111110 1101 11100111 1010111 111010 100111001 10010110 10010001001 0101 010100111 0110101 1110 11001011 11101001110 011100101 0010110 01001110010 1101011 001001111101 110100101 1111001000 11101 111111101 1111101 1111101 01111 101101 011010 101010 110010 0101101100010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,533
Words 317
Sentences 35
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 10, 8, 10, 14, 1, 8
Lines Amount 51
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 199
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Written on May 10, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on May 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:35 min read
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