Analysis of Bullets And Bodies
Bullets And Bodies
They walk over bullets and bodies
At of all places a shopping mall
On a Saturday afternoon
Blood and death
The evidence a white supremacist
With an assault rifle
Dressed in black
Attacks innocents
Old and young alike.
A country with an amendment
Allowing for guns in everyone’s hands
Has more guns than people
Makes thoughts and prayers
A pathetic answer
To sheer slaughter
Mass murder
The failure of weapon control
Ownership and prayers.
How many more people need to die
While psychotics sleep
Waiting to blast
Full metal jackets freely
With no restraint?
Bullets splash bodies
Republicans offer empty words
In place of laws
As our children are killed.
We are a targeted generation
Who are subject to be shot
Because millions make
Irrational justifications
While we roam as targets
To be shot without warning
Without the assurance
Life matters more
Than the lust for guns.
Copyright © 2023 Charles Edward York
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010 111010010 111100101 1010001 101 0100010100 110110 101 01100 10101 01011010 01011011 111110 1101 001010 1110 110 01011001 1001 110110111 111 1011 1101010 1101 10110 010010101 0111 1101011 110100010 1101111 01101 01000010 111110 1110110 010010 1101 10111 101101 111110111101100010101010010111111010100100010110010100101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,164 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 9, 9, 9, 9, 2 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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The mass shooting in Allen, Texas
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