Analysis of Sooner or later!
The news of this world is grave, dark and troubling.
How could they just open fire and kill people who are unknown to them.
Men, women and children are nothing but targets, like a game.
High score wins, gets the prize, and they become a legend for the next ones.
Why? Everyone ask as they drink in the gore, bloody scenes and life lost.
Why? Reporters ask any who will speak: experts, clergy, and politicians.
Why? Asked friends, family, neighbors; those for whom an opportunity is seen.
Yet no one answers, none can say what spawned the anti-life beast, the demon.
Is the flaw in the basis of our society, God given rights or men who speak as God?
How is it right to restrict love? Demand the structure of family? Where is choice?
Why is it noble to be a single parent? Everyone makes mistakes, wrong choices.
The towns of old shared the burden of children's growth, not so today.
Don't spank my child. Don't correct them. I'll correct them if it's needed.
Make it easier for them; give them advantages we never had. Free their minds.
Right and wrong have many meanings, good and evil are obscure definitions.
You're only wrong if you get caught; besides we all are going to die.
Sooner or later!
Scheme | XXXA XAXX XXXX XXAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111110100 111110100110110111 110010110110101 11110101010101011 1101111001101011 101011011110100010 111100101111010011 111101111101011010 101001011001001101111111 11111011010101100111 11110110101010101110 0111101011011101 1111101110111110 11100111101001101111 101110101010101010 11011111011111011 10110 |
Characters | 1,181 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 55 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on February 03, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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