Analysis of Ballistic Extermination



We see them, we hear them,
We bleed for their suffering and pain.
The homes are demolished, families
Uprooted and unjustly disposed.
No where to hide, no where is save!
The refuges and shelters demolished
And the sky rains constant hell,
No water, no power and food  is burnt
Worst no escape.
All the roads are bombed,
And shells are in excess,
There is hope and nothing else!
Mothers, children, siblings
And grandparents escaping
On bullets swanned earthquake,
Made at the hands of man
And his mad machine of plague,  
Dearth and murder of the old
The young and still unborn.
To what end to what gain?
Man madness beyond imagination.
Defacing of the value of human lives.
To what end, for hell to what end?
Stop in the name of the living,
And so many dead.
Stop!
Halt this death!
There is no end to this death and hell.
Act now and let human flesh
Escape this ballistics Extermination
And the unending HELL.
K@42


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Poetic Form
Metre 111111 111110001 011010100 010001001 11111111 0100010010 0011101 1101100111 1101 10111 01101 1110101 101010 010010 11011 110111 0110111 1010101 010111 111111 110010010 01010101101 11111111 10011010 01101 1 111 111111101 1101101 0110100010 000101 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 951
Words 195
Sentences 16
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 32
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 716
Words per stanza (avg) 166

About this poem

The current inhuman war and it’s influence and immediate effect on the population in particular the young after the damage of Covid on the economy, the major fault lines it exposed at every level from healthcare to economical and educational segregation!

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Written on March 04, 2022

Submitted by Poetry@80 on March 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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