Analysis of The Endless Fear



      
             The Endless Fear

Summer and fall have done their course
And winter is approaching near
But seasons play no role at all
To curb the endless fear

Rockets, grenades and guns and tanks
And knives and swords and spears
All in all, it’s for the call to
Retain the endless fear

War and bombs and bombs and war
You watch your front and rear
Here we go round this merry go round
Of all the endless fear

Cluster bombs and nuclear weapons
Placed strategically here and there
Forcing us all to extend the length
Of this chain of endless fear

Surveillance and indoctrination
Encompassing earth’s sphere
Another way of recycling
This mound of endless fear

You are a friend, or you are an enemy,
And that is the way we steer,
Driving ourselves back into the circle
Of all this endless fear

Today, tomorrow and yesterday,
might all seem so sincere
But no one knows how the cycle goes
 around the endless fear


Scheme A XAXA XXXA XAXA XXXA XAXA XAXA XAXA
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 10011111 01010101 11011111 110101 10010101 010101 10111011 010101 1010101 111101 111111011 110101 101010010 10100101 101110101 1111101 01000010 010011 010110100 111101 11011111100 0110111 10001101010 111101 0101010 111101 111110101 010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 927
Words 175
Sentences 1
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

Describing our history and fear a it still prevails today.

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Written on February 04, 1964

Submitted by Craigdna on November 15, 2023

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Craig Childers

I do landscaping, labor, and bookkeepinig for a living, and I enjoy researching, reading, music, poetry, writing, and creating projects to work on to engage myself. more…

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