Analysis of Those peaceful days

Humza Ilyas 1981 (Pittsburg)



For those peaceful Dayton come I yearn,
A time when we might not feel this dread,
But to get there we all must learn.

A place where money need not we earn,
To ensure that our children are fed.
For those peaceful days to come I yearn,

Where flames of hate & evil won’t burn,
And brothers won’t shoot each other dead.
But to get there we all must learn.

Where the good are easily discerned,
And leaders has sense in their heads.
For those peaceful days to come I yearn,

Where people’s troubles are put astern,
And the truth is quite easily said.
But to get there we all must learn.

And so with these thoughts I shall adjourn,
But know that you have not been mislead.
For those peaceful days to come I yearn,
But to get there we all must learn.


Scheme abA abA abA xxA abA axAA
Poetic Form
Metre 111010111 011111111 11111111 011101111 1011101011 111011111 11111011 010111101 11111111 101110001 01011011 111011111 11010111 001111001 11111111 011111101 111111101 111011111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 733
Words 144
Sentences 9
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted by drilyas99 on May 23, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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