Analysis of Cages
Doctor, I don’t feel too good today my heart is truly aching
For the people in cages, sleep in tin foil like they’re baking
My own people, taken from their homes for lacking legal papers
separated from their children, accused of being drug traders
Even if you set them free, the things we do will leave them shaking
Because it’s the lives of their family and friends that we’ve been taking
Demonize minorities, publicly accuse them of raping
I thought there was a bit of God in everyone, according to the Quakers
Doctor I don’t feel too good today,
Why are we still making
way to legally imprison foreigners, so long that they’re facing
death sentences, whatever happened to “love thy neighbor”?
surely your morals prohibit you becoming modern day enslavers
Doctor, I don’t feel so good today.
Scheme | AABBAAABCAADBC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111011111010 101001010111110 1110101111101010 100111001110110 1011111011111110 01101111000111110 100100100011110 111101110100101010 101111101 111110 11100010100111110 1100101011110 1011001010101011 101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 799 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 634 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 138 |
About this poem
This poem is about border cages that immigrants are stuffed into by Americans.
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Written on June 11, 2021
Submitted by adandrade1607 on June 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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