Give
Sharyn Ward 1957 (United States)
The world is in danger and great disrepair
We destroy what we have and really don't care,
We fight with each other with bombs and guns,
A war that is waged but is never won.
We have but one world in which we live
We take everything but nothing we give.
We should look all around us at the lives we destroy,
And stop kicking it around like a broken down toy.
So give a little, give a lot, give till it hurts,
And things may turn out for the better not worse.
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Written on May 10, 2002
Submitted by sharyn_w on October 28, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABCDEFFGH |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 466 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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