Analysis of Outlaws
No one is born,
Without love.
To know what it takes to hate.
No one born blessed to receive life,
Is prepared already to discriminate.
Taught to teach are the people,
To emulate outlaws.
With a learning to imitate them.
Little boys.
Enjoy the noise.
And a chasing away,
Those in black hats.
Threatening those,
White closing in to defend...
Territory stolen.
To protect from named to label as villains.
With a growing to pursue,
Enemies taught to teach they only knew.
Taught are the people.
Little boys and today the girls.
Toy guns to shoot,
Are meant to use for fun.
Done around the World.
Playing outlaws, criminals and thieves.
To believe themselves,
Above the law instinctively.
Adults they become feeling entitled.
Adults they become.
Day and night to keep this felt believed,
They can say and do whatever they please.
Little boys become men.
Girls become mothers of children.
Children learn from those who teach.
No one is born,
Without love.
To know what it takes to hate.
No one is born blessed to receive life.
Is prepared without it taught to teach,
Who it is to discriminate.
BANG! BANG!
People enjoy the sound of their guns.
BANG! BANG!
People enjoy,
Enemies to create.
Chase and see them run.
For the fun of the hunt.
And bodies to count to score points.
Regardless of rules to obey the laws.
A winning to have won done.
Is all that matters to the ones,
Wanting to be praised with prizes!
With proven evidence,
Of obtaining...
Skills to sit in positions of leadership!
BANG! BANG!
People enjoy the sound of their guns.
BANG! BANG!
People enjoy,
The freedom to feel entitled!
And...
The freedom of speech.
To say and do to whomever they please!
In a society.
Loving to endorse,
The misdeeding lawlessness of their outlaws!
Scheme | ABC dc efx ggxxxxhijj exxhxxxk lxxm xhn ABC dnc OIOPchx xfhixxxx OIOPlxnmkxf |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (34%) |
Metre | 1111 011 1111111 11111011 1010101010 1111010 1101 10101101 101 0101 001001 1011 1001 1100101 10010 10111110110 1010101 1001111101 11010 10100101 1111 111111 10101 10110001 10101 01010100 0110110010 01101 101111101 111011011 101011 10110110 1011111 1111 011 1111111 111111011 101011111 1111010 11 100101111 11 1001 100101 10111 101101 01011111 0101110101 0101111 11110101 10111110 110100 1010 1110010110 11 100101111 11 1001 01011010 0 01011 1101101011 000100 10101 01100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,747 |
Words | 380 |
Sentences | 53 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 3, 10, 8, 4, 3, 3, 3, 7, 8, 11 |
Lines Amount | 65 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
Font size:
Written on November 21, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on November 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
- 1:54 min read
- 8 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Outlaws" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 1 May 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/144712/outlaws>.
Discuss this Lawrence S. Pertillar poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In