Analysis of The Dawn of Destruction
The world is mired in turmoil,
and it's made it hard to cope.
It seems that what may lie ahead
is on a slippery slope.
The dominance of greed has
become the face of fashion.
It hasn't left a remnant of what
used to be compassion.
It has conquered every facet
of our line of best defense.
Now lying in the ruins
is the corpse of common sense.
Could there be a ray of hope
that would have the skill to suture
every ugly gaping wound in
our grandkids' precious future?
Scheme | ABCBDEFEFGHGBIJI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 0111111 11111101 1101001 0100111 0101110 110101011 111010 111010010 11011101 1100010 1011101 1110111 11101110 100101010 1011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 482 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 364 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
About this poem
This is pretty self-explanatory. The direction this world is heading into leaves little hope. I can well remember times when family values would dictate behavior, courtesy was prevalent every day, and respect was essential. That has ALL gone out the window!
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