Analysis of The Politicians Game



Inside I have a hunger the pain does not subside
Each morning when I wake up it's like a flooding tide
My heart it fills with sadness my mind gets full of woe
Each day I try and start again I have so far to go

People only see me they can't see in my head
All the pain and worry that makes me see just red
They think I am a mad man they know not of my shame
I lost so many brothers in the politicians game

It's war they said go fight for us, go do your duty now
Yet all they did was stay at home and in parliament they'd row
The cost is one we must endure it is their present job
Lay down their lives for England , let those at home just sob

So if you see me crying or laying in the rain
Come hold my hand and help me or I'll always be the same
The time it is the present but for me I'm in the past
Will the scenes inside my muddled head forever last I ask


Scheme AABB CCDD XBEE XDXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 0111010011101 1101111110101 1111110111111 11110101111111 101011111011 101010111111 1111011111111 1111010000101 11111111111101 111111110010011 01111101111101 1111110111111 1111110110001 1111011111101 01110101111001 101011101010111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 850
Words 188
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 165
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on December 13, 2015

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Mark Nadin (The Deal Poet)

Mark Nadin has lived in Deal since his birth in 1962. Deal is a coastal town in the South East Corner of Englan on the Kent Coast Mark spent a lot of his childhood on the beach and on a farm where his love with nature began Deal was the home of the Roysl Marines School of Music and as a child he wanted to join the military but due to chronic asthma this never happened His love of the coast and the military come through in many of his poems that he has written since his teenage years, however he only started keeping the in 2011 after his marriage broke up He used his poetry as a way of expressing himself and also as a means of therapy more…

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