Analysis of The Terrorist
Come my innocent children,
Help bleed my anger away.
Believe in what I say to you,
And it wont be death that you see today.
Countless virgins to choose from,
Your soul will be clean and free.
Strap on my terminal love,
And be a weapon for me.
In this death I see value,
For me it is worth your cost.
You do this in the name of life,
Until all of life is lost.
Joe McLaughlin
03/25/2014
| Scheme | ABCB XDXD CXXX AX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110010 1111001 01011111 0111111101 1010111 1111101 1111001 0101011 0111110 1111111 11100111 0111111 1010 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 405 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
What does a recruiter of terrorists tell the recruits that convinces them that their life is worth his cause.
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