Analysis of DEATH MERCHANTS
Death merchants spreading grief
Make money from parents's sorrow,
Sending children to live in Hell
Rejoicing in their fear and horror.
The prophets of death celebrate
As good men and women die,
Their dark largess is all they need
As mothers and widows all cry.
Vultures swoop across the land
Watching as their evil profits soar,
Profiteering from the bloodshed
Grown rich on proceeds of war.
Death merchants starting battles
So they make mountains of cash,
Watching as the innocents die
So happy and unabashed.
Profiteering mass murderers
Acting with the UN's accord,
Billionaires are being grown
Corpses in a myriad score.
Death mongers are profiting
Lockheed Martin and Boeing,
Death mongers profiting from
The evil seeds they're sowing.
BAE Systems and General Dynamics
Conspiring in death with Raytheon,
Until only bloody bodies remain
All hope for the future is long gone.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB XXAX XXXB CCXC XXXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 1101110 10101101 010011010 0101110 1110101 11101111 11001011 1010101 101110101 010101 1110111 1101010 1111011 10101001 110001 0101100 1010101 011101 10001001 1101100 110010 1101001 0101110 1100100010 010011100 0110101001 111010111 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 956 |
| Words | 173 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
I remember the saddest day of my life, when I was nine or ten. When I learnt the most obscene thing I've ever heard. That private companies are allowed to make weapons of war for profit. Despite being unemotional as a rule, I cried out loud when I heard this. I still believe that if the UN passed a worldwide law that only governments could own factories making weapons of war, that war would virtually end. History is resplendent with examples of private companies giving millions of dollars worth of weapons to small nations, then grossly overcharging the big nations, to keep what should have been a short war going for years or even decades, so that they could grow fat on the profits of death!
Written on May 17, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on June 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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