Nothing was Hidden
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
The young men push the old aside
To rush to their destruction
To conquer towns and villages
And give them their instructions
They didn’t see the stop signs
As they rolled into the village
And so, they raped the women
And the houses all were pillaged
They dragged the loot outside the town
And sat down to divide it
The young girls and the women too
Their lust, they didn’t hide it
They carried off the precious things
The old men had acquired
They took their wives and children too
And all that they desired
The LORD looked down from heaven
Pondered all the young men’s deeds
The chaos and confusion caused
And so, he made them bleed!
And all the birds of the air gorged themselves on their flesh!
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Written on February 12, 2022
Submitted by dawg4jesus on March 17, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXX XXAX XBCB XDCD AXXX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 708 |
Words | 136 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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