War
While you sit at your desk and read this poem
There are men giving children coughing gas
While you look in a mirror, hair with a comb
There are bullets firing through the glass
There are men being attacked everywhere
They turn off the lights and say goodbye
When you turn them off you go running scared
While you take the stairs, men fall from the sky
Some are caught by a must of luck, others; not
You go to school, yet you refuse to study
While others swim in pool of devils pot
You like people, while your dog is your true buddy
This a place where men wish they were not born
Welcome to a time of a world at war
By Grady Bowen©
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Submitted by Grady Bowen on April 14, 2017
Modified on April 18, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXAXBXBCDCDXX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 126 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 1 |
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