Analysis of When Nightfall Blocks the Sun
What will happen when the moon and the sun are blocked?
Will humanity come as one?
Or will nature take it’s course of devoured flesh?
Will we all stand as equals?
Or will one nation triumph under God?
What will happen after the hour strikes?
Maybe the world will witness and
be a part of war, sickness, and poverty.
Or perhaps the world will be under one love.
What will happen in that final hour?
Will the world be in it’s final suffrage?
With billions of lives wiped away from it’s sin?
Or maybe the kings will wise up,
And bring disaster to an end.
What will happen when the sun bloodies the moon?
Tell me what is true.
Is this natural phenomenon the sign of the last days?
Or am I thinking in a foolish craze?
One day the mysteries will reveal like an open carpet,
with the world turning at its heel.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010100111 10100111 111011110101 1111110 1111010101 1110100101 10011100 10111100100 10101111011 1110011010 1011011010 11011101111 11001111 01010111 1110101101 11111 11100010011011 1111000101 110100101111010 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 817 |
Words | 177 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
This is a prophetic poem questioning the future of humanity in a world where tensions are rising within our geopolitical world today after witnessing an eclipse and the red moon.
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Written on August 22, 2017
Submitted by kt_thewriter1021 on April 21, 2023
Modified on April 22, 2023
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