Analysis of All Birds Do Not Fly



We,
The citizens...
Of opportunity and self righteous wishes.
Spoiled.
And deluded beyond truth to accept,
How fragile life is to live it.
Not guaranteed,
Kept to sustain without breath to breathe.
Air.

Continue we take for granted ourselves.
To believe no one else,
Suffers through...
Sorrows, heartbreak.
And pain to feel.
Too severe no medication created,
Can numb away from memory.
The repetition of anguish.
Or rid by throwing money at it.
To stop the evil of man-made greed.
And the ones who believe,
Tortured minds cure overnight...
When money is within sight.
Based upon a fiction to feed.
Just to impress,
The keeping up of pretensions addressed.

And why?
Why is that question few can answer.
To make sense of intentional destruction.
Premeditated and strategically planned.
For the purpose to prove insanity rules.
Leaving those self indulged to assume,
Themselves to be chosen...
Leaders to be followed.
Into the bowels of hell.
As if homesick to miss,
Where their minds are cemented.
Fixed!
With wishes to turn Earth,
Into...
A dwelling.
A hate filled replica,
Of their racist dominion!

'Whoa...hold up!
How can people of the same race,
Be racists?
What is it that they see,
Others can not detect.
Even under microscope.
And then become argumentative,
With those who are clearly...
Discriminated against.
Because their ethnicity.
Claimed to be easily identifiable?'

'Why do some birds with wings,
Are not seen flying in the sky?
Yet...
All are birds?
And then when cooked,
No one can tell,
If it is squirrel, rabbit or chicken?
Can you tell the difference?'

'What sense does that make?
Or...
I should say,
What sense of such nonsense...
Are you trying to make?'

'Exactly!
Those are my sentiments too!
But...
I have to admit,
I still wonder about the wings!'

'What?
You wonder about that?
When the sky is about to fall?'

'Chicken Little said the same thing.
And folks thought,
She was out of her mind!'


Scheme AXXXXBCXX XXDEXFAXBCXGGCXX HXIXXXIXJXFXXDKXI XXXAXXXAXAX LHXXXJIX EXXXE ADMBL MXX KXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1 0100 10100011010 1 0010011101 11011111 101 110101111 1 01011110001 101111 101 101 0111 1011010010 11011100 0010110 111101011 110101111 001101 1011101 1101011 10101011 1101 0101101001 01 111101110 11110100010 0100001001 10101101001 101101101 011110 101110 0101011 11111 1111010 1 110111 01 010 011100 1110010 11 11101011 110 111111 101101 101010 01010100 111110 010001 0110100 11110001000 111111 11110001 1 111 0111 1111 1111010110 1110100 11111 1 111 111110 111011 010 1111001 1 11101 11100101 1 110011 10110111 10101011 011 111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,921
Words 410
Sentences 59
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 9, 16, 17, 11, 8, 5, 5, 3, 3
Lines Amount 77
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted by lpahtillah on March 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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