Analysis of Bleeding Ukraine



Wildfires burning,
Smell of smoke concerning,
The pain saved for later,
And the corruption of a dictator.

Explosions ear-splitting,
Soldiers rage-filling,
The awful invitation,
Of a country invasion.

“Help!”
“Help!”
“Somebody help!”
“Someone please, free me from this cross!”

Words I hear,
From the distance of poverty,
From what was once peaceful,
Now broken, by the almighty.

Kaboom!
Kabam!
Kablast!
Kablam!

Explosions everywhere,
‘Till there’s nothing left, sadly.
Ukrainians suffering,
Ukrianians dying.

I stumbled upon a family,
A husband, a wife, and three children,
Looked morbidly twisted,
Like a broken piston.

“Please help us.”
“Putin is coming.”
“The Soviets are back.”
“Please…don’t slack.”

A overwhelming fear,
Very, very clear,
Covering me in all sides,
Knowing that there are very few lives.

Then, I saw a tank,
A enormous tank,
And on top of it,
Was a Russian assassin.

I run for dear life,
But the tank has other plans,
In other words, To kill me,
Along with their clans.

And then, that was it,
I’m dead, I’m dead,
Time to accept my fate,
I’m dead, I’m dead.


Scheme aabb aacc DDdx xexe ffef xeaa ecxc xagg hhxx iijc xkek jLxL
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 1010 111010 011110 0001010010 010110 10110 010010 1010010 1 1 101 1111111 111 10101100 111110 11010010 01 1 1 1 01010 1110110 0100100 110 110010100 010010110 110010 101010 111 1110 01011 111 00101 10101 1001011 101111011 11101 00101 01111 1010010 11111 1011101 0101111 01111 01111 1111 110111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,136
Words 235
Sentences 22
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 48
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 15

About this poem

About the current Ukraine invasion

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Written on March 18, 2009

Submitted by Blossomlt on April 12, 2022

Modified on March 06, 2023

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