Analysis of Gods and Guns
The people of the night
Surely know when death will come
But it's far too stern to hinder
When there's nowhere left to run
Deep within the shadows
Lurks what they don't want to see
Hoping that it stays there
As a threat from an absentee
They mask their grief in the midst of day
Until the light in the sky disappears
When men with guns and torches
Resurrect their deepest fears
Effacing their homes and families
Collapsing them one by one
These men take hold of the children
And they scream of gods and guns
Too young to know the reason why
The kids stand by for command
But when grown men act like animals
It's hard to spot helping hands
Still, they gather and they listen
With each day they'll lose more blood
Another needless Sudan tragedy
In the quest for peace and love
(Written on September 4, 2012)
© Ricky Randall
September 6, 2012
Scheme | XXABXCXC XDXDXBBX XXXXBXCX A XA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 1011111 11111110 111111 10101 1111111 101111 1011101 111100111 010100101 1111010 011101 010110100 0101111 11111010 0111101 11110101 0111101 111111100 1111101 11100110 1111111 0101001100 0011101 101010 1010 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 814 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on September 29, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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