Analysis of Words
Words – some like feathers
Some like lava stones
Descend with dusty, deadly force
Letters pronounced, leave their mark
Announce revolution – call for change
No more the status quo
The haves and have-nots locking horns
Continents on fire; armies ready
Folly and insanity
Leveling populations
Zealots with religious blindness –
We are not yet ready to escape to other planets!
When will the insatiable insanity stop?
Avarice, jealousy, ego and hate
Shrouded in the name of preservation
This need to protect, secure, control
Are the gods in heaven betting on the outcome?
Do we, mortals at the zenith of our history
Have to be imbeciles and start over?
Stop us! Where are you, Judge – Empire?
The flood of tears and war
The menace of self-destruction
Is near –
Words into peace offerings
Melt our hearts and pray for reason
Has no one ever heard of World Peace?
Heaven help us!
How are my words meaningful?
Where do words fall? Have you witnessed the corpses?
Musty now, who picks them up?
What shall I do with them?
Scheme | XXXXXXXAAXBXXXCXXADDXC XXCX BX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 11101 01110101 1001111 01010111 110101 01011101 1001101010 1000100 100010 10101010 11111010111010 110010001001 1001001001 100011010 111010101 10101010101 11101010110100 1111000110 111111100 011101 01011010 11 1011100 110101110 111101111 1011 1111100 11111110010 1011111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,026 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 22, 4, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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