Analysis of Damned Human Race



You may not like it,
  you may not agree

But religions’ the problem,
  the real enemy

A blind ideology,
  that kills to maintain

A false image of God,
  to blaspheme and profane

The Koran—the Crusades,
  the excuses—the lies

Fanatical visions,
  the death they imply

The future will judge,
  what the present impales

The shame and the heartbreak,
  humanity failed

As ISIS and Hamas
 kill the innocent child

The real God enrages,
  his judgment on file

So spew out your dogma,
  and dig in your heels

As millions will die,
  for what you think you feel

The universe watches,
  eternity waits

For this plague to be over,
 —this damned human race

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)


Scheme XA XA AB XB XX XC XX XX XX DX XX CX DX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 11101 1010010 01100 010100 11101 011011 11001 001001 001001 010010 01101 01011 101001 01001 01001 11001 101001 011010 11011 111110 01011 11011 111111 01010 01001 1111110 11101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 660
Words 114
Sentences 1
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 23, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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