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
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Written on November 21, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on November 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:54 min read
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