Analysis of Expecting More



From the ones who give,
More is expected.
Done.
To demand it comes.
And from the ones who do the best they can.
With a doing to deliver on command.
More is expected.
No matter if blood is dripping off their hands.
More is expected.

Spoiled.
By a quick and instant giving.
Lazy are the people sitting back,
Getting fat...
Without a finger to lift.

Born to place a blame on others to intend it.
And...
Born to believe themselves to be neglected.
Yet...
No word heard from them expresses remorse.
Or regret.

They have been born to believe themselves,
The ones to be honored.
And they have been made to believe,
Themselves God's chosen ones.

Spoiled.
By a man made image of royalty.
And spoiled,
By deception to fiction reality.

Expecting more are the people,
Living a life of entitlements.
Expecting more are the people.
Never satisfied by the ease of their lives.
Expecting more are the people,
Choosing to destroy a greatness.
To fiction and delude a charading faked.

Born to believe,
They have been the ones neglected.
Born to believe,
They are not ones destructive.
And instructed,
To destroy their own way of life.

With expecting more.
Of what?
With expecting more.
Of what?
With expecting more.
Of what?
To expect it more!


Scheme aBxxxxBxB Cxxxx xxbdxd xxex Cfcf GxGxGxx EbEabx HIHIHIh
Poetic Form
Metre 10111 11010 1 10111 0101110111 10101010101 11010 11011110111 11010 1 10101010 101010101 101 0101011 111011101011 0 11010111010 1 1111101001 101 111110101 011110 01111101 011101 1 1011101100 01 101011010 01011010 100110100 01011010 1010101111 01011010 10101010 110001011 1101 11101010 1101 1111010 0010 10111111 10101 11 10101 11 10101 11 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,232
Words 270
Sentences 38
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 9, 5, 6, 4, 4, 7, 6, 7
Lines Amount 48
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Written on October 05, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on October 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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