Analysis of Song for the Hypocrites
You all preach hypocrisy
You preach to end violence,
to call off harassment,
To make peace,
When you all wage a war against those who do not.
Do you not see that you're putting cheese down without setting a trap?
You only feed the rats
Instead of winning a war
you so desperately want to be fighting
It's like preaching
acceptance in a church
How it flies so far over heads
How acceptance only means
Loving your estranged brother
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIIJKLM |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110100 1111100 111010 111 111101011111 1111111011011001 110101 0111001 11100011110 1110 010001 11111101 1010101 1010110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 344 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
About this poem
This poem, written in 2021, reflects on the political unrest of that year and the one previous.
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Written on 2021
Submitted by KellenLou on February 14, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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