Analysis of It take just one



It takes just one bullet
to take one name.
One innocent person that is taken away
without any guilt or any solemn shame.

Look, we are tired of seeing it.
Reliving it everyday on the TV news
or on our
social media page.
It's like the bully in the classroom that
doesnt stop being a bully.
It's like a bad dream that doesn't go away.
A requiem nightmare that we cannot wake up from.
Then we pray?

It takes just one bullet
to take one name.
One innocent dream shattered
by these vile little games.

When are we are going to say
Enough is Enough.
We are sick and tired of being sick and tired
of being sick and tired
Only to see it happen
another solemn day
and then we see another family attending
another funeral.
Then we pray?

It takes just one bullet
to take one name.
One life, one liberty, one personality
gone up in tempered flames.

Why do we have to sit through
this torture rack of pain,
Only to have the system let us down
again and again and again.
These visions are stuck on repeat.
Playing the same old song and dance,
skips on the record player.
And then we pray?

It only takes one bullet
to take one name.
Silenced at that moment in time,
captured in hearts and minds
and then we pray


Scheme ABcb xxdxxecxC ABfg cxffxcxxC ABeg xxxxxxdC aBxxC
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 1111 110010111001 01101110101 111101101 010110110111 1110 101001 110100011 1110010 11011110101 010011110111 111 111110 1111 1100110 111101 11111011 01101 1110101101010 1101010 1011110 010101 0111010100010 010100 111 111110 1111 11110010100 110101 1111111 110111 1011010111 01001001 11011101 10011101 1100110 0111 1101110 1111 10111001 100101 0111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,200
Words 260
Sentences 21
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 9, 4, 9, 4, 8, 5
Lines Amount 43
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 134
Words per stanza (avg) 33

About this poem

Written in April 2022.

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Submitted by stevejos66 on July 10, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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