Analysis of Kindness Is A Classroom
Kindness Is A Classroom
Kindness is a classroom
Where we learn to get along
With each other
So where are the students
When the teacher isn’t there?
The board is bereft of benignity
Where words should be
There are crude drawings
Of bigotry and prejudice
Hatred in hues slung and sticking.
In the river of separation
Lies buoys to block immigrants
Drowning them in desperation
The crippling dictator
Determined kindness isn’t deserved.
Cruelty is the new lesson
Taught to torture the innocent
Our children are desensitized
Unlucky to be shot
By bump-stocks and banana clips.
Yes kindness bleeds on floors
Where getting along got lost
And a gunman holds
An assault rifle pointing
At our future with total malice.
Copyright © 2023 Charles Edward York
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Scheme | A Axbcx dxxxe fcfbd fdddx xdxex xb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 10101 1111101 1110 111010 101011 0110111 1111 11110 11000100 10011010 00101010 11011100 1010010 0100010 01010101 1010110 11100100 10101010 010111 11100101 110111 1100111 00101 1011010 1101011010 101101 111110111101100010101010010111111010100100010110010100101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 980 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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The opposite of kindness taught is cruelty
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