Analysis of Gone To Fade



Gone to fade away its culture.
Once vibrant and bright.
With an array of ethnic colors.

Until the presence,
Of envy and jealousy interfered.
Establishing,
Who most should reflect and choose...
The face of its greatness.
Heroic to fiction.
With an appearance,
Sold to sell and kept to delude.

Gone to fade away the truth.
Once so vibrant and bright.
Various faces shown to highlight,
The richness of this mixed culture.
Diminishing in sight.
With a meant intention to exclude,
A culture based,
Without the participation...
Of non white faces.
To sacrifice their place.
Historically replaced.
Purposely ignoring to evaluate the truth.
And the reality of it.
To keep secret a culture that has achieved,
A greatness explored.
Yet not kept to appreciate more!
All...
Of its contributing participants,
As honorable citizens to respect!
And accept as is.
To keep a greatness that way from fading.


Scheme ABX CXDXXECF GBBABFHEXXHGXXXXXXXXD
Poetic Form
Metre 11101110 11001 110111010 01010 110010001 0100 1110101 011110 010110 11010 11101101 1110101 111001 10010111 01011110 010001 101010101 0101 0100010 11110 11011 010001 100010101001 001011 11100101101 01001 11110101 1 1101000100 11000100101 00111 1101011110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 891
Words 179
Sentences 24
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 8, 21
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 235
Words per stanza (avg) 49
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Written on April 12, 2024

Submitted by lpahtillah on April 12, 2024

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