Analysis of DARK LARGESS
The dark largess of death
From minds so calculating,
Ignoring human suffering
The evil they're contemplating.
Foulness, murder, and death
All make their blood lust rise,
Along with all their profits as
Good men and women die.
They're in it for the money
And don't care about lives
They're happy to orphan babies
And make widows out of wives.
"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!"
Is their sordid battle cry,
"Fill our vaults with hard cash
"Even if you have to die!"
Human life means nothing
Truth and dignity mean less,
As long as they sell their goods
And are rolling in dark largess.
The dark largess of death
Makes the pariahs sing,
Fill the fields with bloody gore
And makes cash registers ching.
Profiteering, fiendish criminals
Pirates, vultures, and rogues,
Kindness is out of fashion
While murder is back in vogue.
THE END
© Copyright 2022 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | Abbb axxc xxxx xcxc bxxx Abxb xxxx xxx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011011 111100 01010100 0101100 101001 111111 01111101 110101 1011010 011011 11011010 0110111 1111 1110101 1101111 1011111 101110 1010011 1111111 01100110 011011 100101 1011101 0111001 01010100 101001 1011110 1101101 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 897 |
| Words | 171 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 31 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
I remember the saddest day of my life, when I was nine or ten. When I learnt the most obscene thing I've ever heard. That private companies are allowed to make weapons of war for profit. Despite being unemotional as a rule, I cried out loud when I heard this. I still believe that if the UN passed a worldwide law that only governments could own factories making weapons of war, that war would virtually end. History is resplendent with examples of private companies giving millions of dollars worth of weapons to small nations, then grossly overcharging the big nations, to keep what should have been a short war going for years or even decades, so that they could grow fat on the profits of death!
Written on May 21, 2022
Submitted by philip0157 on June 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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