Analysis of Bleeding hearts



A man's skin is no guest to scars,
The belly is used to the clenching feeling of hunger becoming an embodiment of weakness,
We are now surrounded by beasts who only speaks the language of gunshot and ear piercing screams of the poor.
Their hearts full to the brim with darkness,
Whispering sweet evils to the pure souls turning them into dry hearts and walking bones that only knows how to kill and hide like a shy shadow.

Yes life is an open battle field,
A plain wall smashed with blood fingerprints of this treacherous world,
That does not give them the right!
To blanket themselves with ambers of ignorance and selfishness together with lack of mercy combined with thorns of greediness spitting them harshly onto the world, erasing the last bit of humanity left in them,
That does not give them the right!
The right to cut the bravery of all the humans,
Splattering red liquids of the innocent breathing souls,
Cutting the future lineage,
Leaving humanity in fear of being the next on line,

Will there be no change?
Are we going to keep walking on the trail of numb light with little to no splitter of glitters?
Continue to hang our heads low with no certainty of tomorrow?
What can we do,
Hide in our shelves be speaking with no voice?
How can we be heard when we speak not?
But still! There is a spark of hope in our hearts that someday it will all change and become a history not to remember but to forget.


Scheme xaxab xxCxCxxxx xxbxxxx
Poetic Form
Metre 01111111 010111011011001010100110 1110101111010101101101101 111101110 1001101011101011101011101111011011 111110101 01111110111001 1111101 11001110110001000101111001111110110100101001110100101 1111101 0111010011010 111010100101 10010100 100100011100111 11111 11101110101111110111110 01011101111100101 1111 10101110111 111111111 1111011101011111110010100110101101
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,415
Words 282
Sentences 11
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 9, 7
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 54
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 377
Words per stanza (avg) 87

About this poem

It generally talks about all the misfortunes happening in North Nigeria. People being murdered, wounded, raped e.t.c and at the end of it, it talks about how we are all quite about it (especially our leaders) and hoe we still have a glinted of hope that things might change. no one has the voice to speak their mind, it's really upsetting and sad.

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Submitted by Fatimau753 on September 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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