Analysis of Let Us Have War
War is a major conflict
Or violent struggle between enemies.
Human beings become desperate
To kill others as their antics.
People with crooked characters
And twisted personalities;
Initiate war through love of power
And wealth, and false identities.
Humans once achieved heroism
When they faced the enemy defence.
Fighting those
Who invaded their country,
Their backs against the fence.
These were the honourable battles
Of golden civilisations.
Now wars are initiated
For selfish reasons
By random nations.
Once humane wars were confined
To fighting other soldiers of honour.
Now killing innocent civilians are embroiled,
Who were their own donors.
Science was first enhancing humanity
And complementing Nature’s beauty.
Now scientists are responsible
For the destruction; Of all God’s legacy.
Great scientific inventions have helped
To fill the needs of all;
Prolonging healthy living
And providing food,
To wipe out any shortfall.
Tragically science could not
Cure the disease,
Of unending greed.
Although this sickness is in a minority,
Who are morally creeps.
Such foolishness has achieved
The unacceptable and deadly gap;
Between them and
Their poor customers,
Who inevitably take the rap.
Massive wealth is drained first
From the majority in foreign lands;
And then the policy is repeated
In homelands,
Leaving weak and hungry gangs.
Sane scientists have provided
Tremendous production possibilities;
To allow humans to live happier
And enjoy freer and natural activities.
But profits were sufficient
To attract a greedy few
To pervert their sense of right.
Thus many scientists were persuaded,
To wrong and corruption
Without a great fight.
So warlike activities were promoted
For the good of major money schemes;
Diverting all humane development projects,
For the sake of warrior dreams.
Arming themselves as atomic superpowers,
Of the East and the West;
Never-ending sales were generated
For war materials
From all the rest
Localised wars were fuelled
By hook or by crook
Or by rogues,
Sponsoring local immorality;
And strife between petty gangs
Of ill repute
None have the time or interest,
To know how many innocent lives
Are sacrificed;
Just too busy guarding their gains
And designs for it ever to be multiplied.
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Metre | 1101010 11001001100 10100110 11101110 10110100 0100100 010111110 01010100 10101100 111010001 101 1010110 110101 100110 1101 1110100 11010 11010 1011001 110101011 110100010101 101110 10110100100 01001010 110010100 10010111100 101001011 110111 0101010 00101 111101 1001011 1001 10101 11101000100 111001 1100101 001000101 0110 11100 101000101 101111 1001000101 0101001010 01 1010101 11001010 0100100100 1011011100 0011001000100 1100010 1010101 1101111 1101000010 110010 01011 1101000010 101110101 010101010010 10111001 10011010010 101001 101010100 110100 1101 11010 11111 111 100100100 0101101 1101 1101110 111101001 110 11101011 00111101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,155 |
Words | 349 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 22 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 3, 2, 5, 5, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 76 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
Superpower status is achieved by materialist and industrious people by accepting the destruction of human resources and the massacre of millions of innocent and simple people. They select the site, attract the sadist from the masses, brainwash them, arm them with killing machines, trap them under long-term and unending future repayments. While the hired dogs massacre their own people, evil systems are established for future generations, making them rich. Thus the war games targeted against one another help the rich to become richer at the cost of the whole of society. more »
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