Analysis of Two Brothers and a Kite



The two brothers are very much alike,
Although one is older by a few years,
There are two brothers, but only one kite,
The older threats, younger gives into fear

They are older now and have grown apart,
The younger being taller in statue,
Making demands is this brothers new art,
In vein, he tells the older what to do.

Time passes, each has his own family,
They still are competing for their resource,
They have not learned how to share more freely,
Hate is born, and with it, constant discord.

Each of the families becomes a great tribe,
The tribes soon become great mighty nations,
Each blessed with so much potential to thrive,
Forsaking peace, Take up battle stations.

With Missiles pointed down each others throats
Millions of souls watching, ready to fight.
They enlist allies, attempting to gloat,
It appears that there is no end in sight.

Then all at once, as if 'twas overnight,
Whether by mistake, it is hard to tell
It happened so fast, how graphic the sight,
They created a new country called Hell.

As the dust resided and the smoke cleared,
We now see what came of this worlds great might!
How? The future of life forever smeared,
All over a small dispute for a kite.


Scheme XXAX BCBC DXDX XEXE XAXA AFAF GAGA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (71%)
Metre 0110110101 111101011 1111011011 0101101011 1110101101 010101001 1001111011 0111010111 1101111100 1110101110 1111111110 1110111010 11010001011 0110111010 1111101011 0101111010 1101011101 1011101011 1011001011 1011111101 1111111101 1010111111 1101111001 1010011011 1010100011 1111111111 1010110101 1100101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,187
Words 243
Sentences 9
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Written on October 03, 2007

Submitted by RecklessBuddha on December 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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