Analysis of A Poet's Mighty Pen



A Poet's Mighty Pen

I pen this for those who died
That death with a dream and a bullet
Leaving behind family and children that cried
For their souls crying out to you and me.

The pen is mightier than the sword
But some sharper than others
Cutting up the souls of our sisters and brothers
As they put their knee on our necks with no breathe left.

When the government doesn't care
While we struggle day to day
And while more of black and brown men are spilling blood on the streets
And while Black Lives doesn't matter to others anyway.

There's still no justice and no peace
On our streets we walk alone
But until then and in the meantime all these things cease
And when Black Lives do matter.

Let me be clear
Of what I am saying to you
There's no time for fear
But pressing onward and onward press.


Scheme X AXAX XBBX XCXC DXDX EXEX
Poetic Form
Metre 010101 1111111 111010010 100110001011 1111011101 011100101 1110110 1010111010010 1111111011111 10100101 1110111 011110111101101 0111101011010 11110011 11011101 101100011111 0111110 1111 11111011 11111 110100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 802
Words 163
Sentences 5
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 26

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Submitted by kenjen61 on April 11, 2023

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Kenneth R. Jenkins

Freelance writer, poet, podcast host/producer, minister,devoted husband living in Savannah, GA. Author of three books of poetry. more…

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