Analysis of Mine Field: 2022

Daniel Wagner 1984 (Anderson, IN)



Our world is becoming a field full of mines
By the sheeple who think that we owe them our minds
By the wokest believing they're leading the blind
The black and the white and the other divides
The media outlets' State-sanctioned lies
The political class' unpunishable crimes

Where violent riots erupt in the streets
For the photo-op death cops and deep-state employees
Propaganda we trade in exchange for the news
The friendships we shed for our differing views

Step Left and you're scared of the Rich and the Racists
Step Right and you're facing a mob without faces
Step backwards they'll force you to stay down and then
Step up and you'll never be heard from again

It's that feeling you get when you've grown up alone
In a house full of family you've never known

At the end of a gun
At the tip of a knee
At the hands of Antifa
At the cost of The Free
In the halls of the White House
In a virus we fear.
We don't know how to fix it
But this much is clear:

Our world is becoming a field full of mines
That we're planting ourselves in the cage of our minds


Scheme Abxxxx xxcc xxdd ee xfxfxgxg Ab
Poetic Form
Metre 101101001111 101111111101 10101011001 01001001001 010011101 00100111 11001001001 101111011010 01011001101 010111101001 110111010010 110110010110 11011111101 11011011101 111011111101 001111001101 101101 101101 10111 101101 0011011 001011 1111111 11111 101101001111 11100010011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,077
Words 213
Sentences 2
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 4, 2, 8, 2
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 34

About this poem

This poem is commentary on how fabricated political and social divides are causing deep rifts between friends and family.

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Written on June 01, 2022

Submitted by Estateofcreative on October 04, 2022

Modified on March 14, 2023

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