Analysis of Not Quite a Warrior
This world spins fast in a whirlwind of hate.
Every day, more opinions. Every day, a debate.
It’s channeled to us against our will.
News of hate rallies and students who kill.
We cannot accept it as our new norm.
We must walk away from the eye of this storm.
We comfort ourselves with poison and meds,
While our corrupt leaders sleep sound in their beds.
We fuel each other and build up a rage.
Death and destruction, every turn of the page.
And yet there you sit grinning, not yet jaded.
Just an innocent child, newly created.
You will soon learn the truth of this planet.
The tribe of man has all but damned it.
Remember that strength is not just in the fight.
Strength is keeping peace when others lose sight.
There is great power in thought before action.
Reason is needed in any troubled faction.
A calm head in a sea of lost minds,
Can still inspire and join party lines.
Not quite a warrior, but a hero the same.
When you face pain and darkness, be the healing flame.
Scheme | A A B B C C D D E E F F X X G G H H D D I I |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100111 100110101001001 1101101101 1111001011 11001111011 11101101111 11000111001 110011011011 11011001101 100101001101 01111101110 11100110010 1111011110 011111111 01011111001 1110111011 11110010110 101100101010 011001111 110101101 110100101001 111101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 997 |
Words | 225 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 22 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem while watching my four-year-old daughter play in the backyard. I was contemplating the kind of world she'll have to grow up in and the type of person she'll need to be to overcome it.
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