Analysis of We, the people



US-of-A
The land of the "free"
Home of the "brave"

Brave enough to stand up?
No.
Free enough to speak?
No.
Proud enough to defend it?
No.

We are not proud
We are not loud
We do not care
For our country Is not fair

We are not proud
Of the politicians
Who smash
thrash
and destroy
Communities

We are not loud
About the cops
Who Scare
Threaten
and abandon
the people they protect

We do not care
For other people
Who lie
cheat
and hate
The same people we do

We are not one-
We are not none-
We are not "Ex pluribus Unum"

We are all for themselves-
For, we do not care
We are not loud
We are not proud
Of the US-of-A

We scream, "DAMN YOU!"
In our homes-
We yell, "HELP US"
from our laptops-
We howl "NO MORE"
From our hearts-
But no one is there to listen
In the US-of-A

We, "The people" Do not control,
WE, "The .1%" control.
We, "the people" Do not live
We, "The .1%" Live.

We the people are done
You may say we want to be lazy
You may say we do not care for ourselves
We, the people, are simply silent.
Because We, the people, screech to ourselves.
We, the people, need help.
We the people, in the US-of-A.


Scheme abx xCxCxC DDEe Dxffxx Dgehhx Exxxxi hhx jeDDa ixxgxxha kkll hbjxjxa
Poetic Form
Metre 110 01101 1101 101111 1 10111 1 1011011 1 1111 1111 1111 11010111 1111 10010 11 1 001 0100 1111 0101 11 10 0010 010101 1111 11010 11 1 01 011011 1111 1111 111110010 111101 11111 1111 1111 10110 1111 0101 1111 1101 1111 1101 11111110 00110 10101101 1001 1010111 101 101011 111111110 11111111001 101011010 01101011001 101011 101000110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 1,171
Words 283
Sentences 16
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 4, 6, 6, 6, 3, 5, 8, 4, 7
Lines Amount 58
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

Life in the USA as a queer child, who fears for their life in the state of Tennessee.

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Written on February 18, 2019

Submitted by victoriamdays on February 14, 2022

Modified on March 28, 2023

1:25 min read
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