Analysis of Out of Control



Where the powerful control the press
They can do anything
To those who are powerless
Morals are mere painting
What‘s wrong is made right
Things do change over night

Faces with false emotion
Are shown each day on TV
Most viewers have no notion
They haven’t the slightest idea

Don’t believe your ears and eyes
Media fills you with lies
Covering up mistakes and schemes
Nothing is what it seems
Read between the lines and detect
The carefully hidden effect

Faces with false emotion
Are shown each day on TV
Most viewers taking this potion
Are brainwashed by what they see

The politician in his suit looks smart
Whilst media trained pretending
He speaks from his heart
He’s twisting and bending
The truth and the facts
Lying about his deceiving acts

Faces with false emotion
The ones that you watch on TV
They set the world in motion
Without thinking of you and me

Promising and explaining
Demanding and complaining
Threatening and accusing
Giving in or refusing
It’s all just performing an act
Playing the polls as a fact


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Poetic Form
Metre 101000101 11110 1111100 101110 01111 111101 1011010 1111111 1101110 11010010 1011101 1001111 10010101 101111 10101001 01001001 1011010 1111111 11010110 111111 001001111 11001010 11111 110010 01001 100110101 1011010 01111111 1101010 01101101 1000010 0100010 1000010 1001010 11101011 1001101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,035
Words 185
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 6, 4, 6, 4, 6
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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