Analysis of Give Me Something to Believe In
When a lie becomes acceptable,
And an insult is okay.
When drama is assumed to be passion,
And authenticity is in decay.
When caring is no longer important,
And relationships are pushed aside.
When compassion is a weakness,
And there is no one in whom to confide.
When girls don’t know they’re girls,
And boys don’t know they’re boys.
When the ones that get the attention,
Are the ones making senseless noise.
As human waste is thoughtlessly discarded,
In the liquid of which we depend.
And the skies are filled with impurities,
With resolutions that only pretend.
When the institutions are collapsing,
Leaving voids that can’t be filled.
When guiding principles are forgotten,
And no morals are instilled.
When faith, trust, and respect,
Are nowhere to be found.
Humanity will be doomed,
And unable to turn it around.
Scheme | XABA XCXC XDBD XEXE XFBF XGXG |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101010100 010111 1101011110 001001001 1101110010 00101101 10101010 0111101101 111111 011111 101110010 10110101 110111010 001011101 0011110100 101011001 100101010 1011111 1101001010 0110101 111001 11111 0100111 001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 835 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
These are concerning times that we live in and I had these thoughts on my mind.
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