Analysis of Refugees
We packed our faces,
In empty cases.
Bolted our lips
Blocked out our minds.
No real aim and no plan.
You do not take any belongings
From your roots, and where
You once belonged.
This will be the new start
Of life for ever lasting
longing for belonging.
No time is left now,
To understand what stories
We are leaving behind.
There is so much pain and sorrow,
We are not facing the desecration,
Of what was once our name.
Silently heading, for the unknown
To swim, or to sink without
A sound, tears
Or sad goodbyes
For those by a bullet or by drowning might die.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 01010 10101 11101 111011 111110010 11101 1101 111011 1111010 101010 11111 101110 111001 11111010 1111000010 1111101 100101001 1111101 011 111 111010111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
About this poem
This current war in the Ukraine brings to mind the horrors and pain to the ordinary people who bear the cost of human madness and absolute absurdity of force
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Written on February 27, 2022
Submitted by Poetry@80 on February 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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