Analysis of TEARING US APART
Barry Green Jr 1973 (Florida)
TEARING US APART
When darkness fell, curtains the land
As the innocent die, we can't understand
How can the enemy roll through so fast
All defenses shatter just like glass
Are You there God, are you there?
Is asked aloud in a desperate prayer
Dreams crumble, from pedestals high
Mountains fall, and shatter the sky
Judgment falls, all around mankind runs
Explosions batter from the mouths of guns
Dead youth, and children break our hearts
Don't you know, judgment is yet to start
I stand in the mountains seeing death below
Watch as fountains bleed, and fires grow
Do we care about the pain we all cause
Head long into destruction we don't pause
A world insane, confusion reigns supreme
Are you there God? Different religions scream
As if in answer, the Sign of God appears
A terrified world cries aloud in its fears
Cry out for their rights, their sin, their hate
But not in repentance which seals the fate
They called, He answered, they cry
Even in judgment will they dare defy
This world, it was created for Light
This darkness, we prefered the night
As we die, as we fight, as we kill
We yearn for that light still
But the darkness held in our heart
Is tearing us all apart
AMEN
Scheme | A BBXXCC DDEEXA FFXXGG HHIIDD JJKKAAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 11011001 1010011101 1101001111 101010111 1111111 110100101 11011001 10101001 101101111 0101010111 110101101 111101111 11001010101 111010101 1110101111 1101010111 0101010101 11111000101 11010011101 0101101011 111111111 1100101101 1111011 1001011101 111101011 11010101 111111111 111111 101010101 1101101 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,189 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
About this poem
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. John 3:19
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