Analysis of Chosen Preferences
With time and investments,
In our own interests made.
Begins to establish,
Chosen preferences we make.
Not to abandon or give away.
Some choose to believe,
Opportunities created...
Are for them to get without them to earn.
Yet perceive they deserve,
A serving of the benefits.
And when the benefits are not there,
From thin air to receive...
A protesting begins.
Not to hear the end of this.
Without one protestor to come forward to say,
They spent a lifetime preparing,
To qualify with sacrificing their time.
With proof of investing,
Effort to endeavor without begging...
From anyone for an opportunity to prove,
The benefit is theirs to give it.
And not take to believe a favor is given.
'I am here to enhance what it is you do.
Like my ancestors in the past.
You used until they were disqualified too!'
'Why didn't you mention that from the start.
Of course we knew your ancestors.
That's how we became the people we are.
You didn't have to protest.
You didn't have to make an issue out of it.
Was it the attention you wanted?
To have it known without your ancestors,
We would not be this great establishment.
Or did you want to boast,
About how your ancestors...
Provided the values,
We use to choose...
To discriminate and segregate,
Ourselves from others?
When you should know by now,
We do our best to attempt to be...
A color blind society.
By all means come join us.
Your presence alone,
Qualifies you to enter through...
Our sacred gates.'
'Sure.
And...
The name of this place?'
'What about it?'
'How long do I have to wait,
To have it changed?
You know...
For something less pretentious.'
'Come on.
With that imagination of yours?
I know you came come up with something,
Much more realistic, accepting and diverse.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010 0101101 011010 10100011 110101101 11101 0100010 1111101111 101101 01010100 010100111 111101 001001 1110111 0111111011 1101010 110110011 111010 1010100110 11011010011 010011111 011101010110 11110111111 1110001 1101100101 1101101101 1111110 1110101011 110111 110111110111 110010110 111101110 1111110100 111111 011110 010010 1111 1010010 001110 111111 1110110111 01010100 111111 11001 1011101 10101 1 0 01111 1011 1111111 1111 11 1101010 11 11001011 111111110 11010010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,750 |
Words | 376 |
Sentences | 43 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 12, 3, 21, 3, 1, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 58 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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