Analysis of MONSTA
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED…
It sounded at first like a 4th of July
fireworks.
Perhaps a military salute to the “Flag”
noiseworks.
But...Oh, no...people started screaming,
“Get up, run! Get up, run!’”
Pow...Pow firing bullets at innocent by-
standers from a high-powered gun.
You saw...abandoned baby strollers and
empty lawn chairs.
Some with half-consumed drinks in cup-
holders.
A child’s bicycle was discarded along a
street curb.
Everybody lined up along a sidewalk to
watch a 4th of July parade.
People scrambling for their lives every-
where to stay alive.
There was blood….more blood on every-
one who survived.
A cheerful-looking balloon left alone in
the grass that said, “God Bless America.”
There are no words for this kind of…
“MONSTA!”
Scheme | A BCXCXDBD AXXXEXXX FXFXXEXA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10110 11011101111 1 01010001101 1 111010 111111 1101011001 1101101 1110100 1011 11101101 10 011001010010 11 1001101011 10111101 10100111100 11101 111111100 1101 01010011010 0111110100 11111111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 787 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem about the 4th of July parade shooting in Illinois. It's a poem that will make you think!
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Written on July 04, 2022
Submitted by gzemlansky on August 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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