Analysis of Room 2992
Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)
Shatters, splinters, redrum shreds
thoughts and prayers reassemble heads?
smashes, bursts and blows apart
we send them here for a head start?
run, flee, create a desk-fort
at the first sound of the rifle's report
If the lack of mental health is causing murder in the class
then do what you always do and please get off your ass
find some money to invest in it
you've repurposed almost every bit
don't act like it evaporated
you thought only old Gingrich hated
spending money on the ill?
that elephant is never still
We need common sense reform!
as students bus to face a storm
of death-lead launched murderously
while falsely we cry, Liberty!
we love the freedom of the grave
that happy thing we freely gave
the Sioux, Kiowa and Seminole
their freedom fit in six foot holes
we spread that stuff around like Christ
and now third graders pay the price
That braying ass makes quite a row
yet when in power fails to show
supporters that they are committed
until more little heads are splitted
and then oh em gee let's all March!
our senators will take this torch
but don't you believe it for a minute
there are no campaign dollars in it
liking them 'cuz of right to choose
their passion is a fucking ruse
for if it meant the world to them
you'd need no Kevlar to study STEM
hither and yon, they clutch their pearls
hey look! it's Schumer, watch him hurl
some biting wit and dark sarcasm
while decapitated children spasm
Im sure they appreciate his wit
little hands twitching (just a bit)
when the mule has taken power
it wastes its legislative hours
If these words leave you disgusted
think but this, your head's not busted
into a fucking hundred sections
so go, begin your genuflections
kneel before your assault deity
just ignore the dead with gaiety
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFFGG HHGIJJXXXX KKFBXXXELL MMXXNNEEXX FXXAIB |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (36%) |
Metre | 10111 1010101 1010101 11111011 1101011 101110101 101110111010001 111111011111 111010101 1111001 11110100 111011010 1010101 11001101 1110101 11011101 11111 11011100 11010101 11011101 011010 11010111 11110111 01110101 1111101 11010111 010111010 01110111 01111111 101001111 1110111010 111011001 10111111 11010101 11110111 111101101 10011111 11110111 11010110 101001010 11101011 10110101 10111010 11110010 11111010 11111110 010101010 110111 101101100 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,784 |
Words | 354 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 10, 10, 10, 6 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
About this poem
Death at school
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Written on June 02, 2022
Submitted by BradyB999 on June 01, 2022
Modified on April 11, 2023
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