Analysis of Afghanistan
Running for a dream
For freedom this we fight
Running from the screams
Our soldiers heard at night
Running to defend
All we hold so true
Some no longer running
They turned red white and blue
Running for the corps
The flesh it falls from bone
The TAPI oil pipeline
It is safe at home
Running with the Taliban
Dead flesh we send back home
To ensure it flows just fine
Billions just a loan
Running out of reason
Running out of rhyme
Running out of children
Take yours dont you take mine
Running out of freedoms
Can this I say I find
It might keep me running
Words a buried land mine
Waiting to explode
Is it this we fear
Freedom dead in America
Now replaced with fear
| Scheme | XAXA XBCB XDEF XFED GXGE XXCE XHXH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (43%) |
| Metre | 10101 110111 10101 1010111 10101 11111 111010 111101 10101 011111 0111 11111 101010 111111 1011111 10101 101110 10111 101110 111111 101110 111111 111110 101011 10101 11111 10100100 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 671 |
| Words | 135 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Corporate wars for profit
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