Analysis of The Burning Bush
The promised land lies in rubble,
The wails, the walls and barbed wired fences
All blend together in a cacophony of screams
Childrens' cries, an abandoned people
Beating hearts as the sky falls, orange.
Smoke filled city,
Blurred news
A blackout.
Stories of governments looking the other way
As blood splatters over the pavements of sacred land.
I am far away but I pray to my god,
But my god was wrong
To cause the exile of a people who's land was claimed
As the promised land.
| Scheme | ABCADEFGHIJKLI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011010 0101011010 1101000010011 101101010 101101110 1110 11 01 101100100101 111100101101 11101111111 11111 110110101111 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 480 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 380 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
About this poem
A short poem written in reflection of the Palestine conflict and the helplessness that comes with watching the war from outside.
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