Analysis of Another Midnight Massacre
All through wee hours of the morning
Laminga wail their missing persons, mourning
And the track road leading into Amurum forest
Stained with droplets of blood down the terraced
Searching into sunrise by Lafon river parts
headless corpses, dissected body parts
littered everywhere, now unidentifiable
As indigo chirps, tension grew so palpable
This was another midnight massacre
When men slept, this ambush occur
Bukuru have breached the truce
So all hell must be let loose
We must return to war
The young ebullient youth swore
To avenge the blood of their heroes past
Their Heart drumming so fast
It is war without end
For this we can no longer pretend
Tales of indigeneity, hate fomentation
Passed down from generation to generation
In fighting a war of inheritance
Tens of thousands snuffed from existence
As senseless conflicts and retaliation
Have become their everlasting damnation
Scheme | AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010 111101010 00111001110 1110111010 10011110101 1010010101 101011 11011011100 110101100 1111101 11101 1111111 110111 0101011 1010111101 111011 111011 111111001 11111 1110101010 0100110100 111011010 1100100010 1011010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 895 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
About this poem
This poem is a kind of call to put an end to generational conflicts, both at the international or local level. A stop to passing hate and bitter tales to young people from one generation to another
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