Analysis of For the blind, who will not see
We are not the enemy
Even though we've never met
I can hear your voice
Crying to the wind from worries
Mother's now single because your husband did wander
Struggling to find a new way to survive
Searching with your broken dreams
For some good in this life
Worried for your children, too young
To see the blight placed on them and you
By the callous test of life's unfair twist.
Men tested by Life and found wanting
Unable to see the effects of your decisions
Pride, your failure and your fault, husbands
Abandoning your future placed in the eyes of the son
Allowing your momentary lust to place you
Beneath the steps of the animals you were intended to shepherd
Your face is blurred from sight by your duplicity.
Children born in hope to parents of promise
I hear your cries unchecked from birth
You are growing up in the world of hunger and sickness
Mother's milk dried in the sagging breast of starvation
While the world looks on and gives to liars and thieves
Dressed in the promises of Charity and Love
“In God We Trust”
Scheme | AXXX XXXXXBX XXXCBXA DXDCXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110100 1011101 11111 10101110 1011001110110 10011011101 1011101 111011 10111011 110111101 1010111011 110110110 0101100111010 111001110 01001101001101 01011001111 01011010010010110 111111110100 10101110110 11110111 11101001110010 1011001011010 101110111001 100100110001 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,004 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on August 17, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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