Analysis of The Wake-Up Call/ The Truth
In from the silence comes the answers of peace
From the soft textured lips are emotions from deep
A soul cries out waiting to be heard,
A public too busy to hear one word.
Walking around not making a sound
Baby blue eyes staring down at the ground
Will life be the same, don’t she know?
Tryin to stop the game is messin with the flow.
She wanted someone, she could keep
What she got, what she found
Was under way too deep…
It was something she wasn’t scared of
Because it was something she wasn’t aware of.
Sure, she’s heard it name a time or two
Paid no mind, it won’t happen to me or you.
Little did she know,
It comes in all shapes and all sizes.
So, she went to the doctors to get a test.
Tested for all things,
Now she knew it was best.
The results came back to her surprise
She looked there in front of her eyes
Only to see, she was positive
People ask me…
“Dutch, why do you put your business out there?
Why do you tell people about your HIV?
See I would rather Educate instead of Hibernate,
For Everytime I speak,
that’s one more protected on the street.
See the words that we speak Educate our Youth,
Let them Know The Truth.
Truth is…
You can’t catch it unless your careless,
but today everyone wants to be carefree.
But carefree comes with a wrapper,
So, why shouldn’t we?
Make sure you wrap it, before you tap it
To prevent HIV
Scheme | XABB CCDD ACA EEFF DXGXG HHX I XE X XXJ JX XIXIX E |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101011 101101101011 011110111 0101101111 100111001 1011101101 11101111 1110111101 1101111 111111 110111 11101111 01111011011 111110111 11111101111 10111 110110110 11110101101 10111 111111 001111001 11101101 101111100 1011 1111111011 1111100111 111101001110 11011 111010101 10111110101 11101 11 111101110 101101111 1111010 1111 1111101111 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,387 |
Words | 299 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 4, 5, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
I wrote this Poem back in 2005 when my whole life changed. Almost 20 years later... It's still as important TODAY!!
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Written on 2005
Submitted by SovirtuouslyPhisticated on July 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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