Analysis of Grit-born



Grit-born
(for the Ukrainian girl singing "Let It Go")

Do not mistake
What I know as
Innocence-bound
Never for a minute
As my young eyes
Have seen it all.
I survive,
I sing like a songbird
From the cage of war
I survive,
And my soul flies free
To the heaven
Of my dreams


Scheme xx xxxxxxAxxAxxx
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Metre 11 100100110111 1101 1111 1001 101010 1111 1111 101 11101 10111 101 01111 1010 111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 290
Words 61
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 13
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 27

About this poem

This is a poem about the remarkable human spirit in the face of the current Ukrainian chaos and devastation.

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Written on March 20, 2022

Submitted by stephen.anderson724 on March 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Stephen Anderson

Stephen Anderson is a Milwaukee poet and translator whose work has appeared in Southwest Review, Latin American Literature Today, Verse Wisconsin, Foundling Review, Twist In Time, Tipton Poetry Journal, New Purlieu Review, Free Verse, POETiCA,REViEW, Life And Legends, Blue Heron Speaks, as well as in numerous other print and online journals. He was the recipient of the First Place Award in the Wisconsin Fellowship Of Poets 2005 Triad Contest, and he received an Honorable Mention in the WFOP’s 2016 Chapbook Contest. Many of his poems have been featured on the Milwaukee NPR affiliate WUWM Lake Effect Program. Anderson is the author of three chapbooks, as well as two full length collections, In the Garden of Angels and Demons (2017) and The Dream Angel Plays The Cello (2019.) In the summer of 2013, six of his poems formed the text for a chamber music song cycle entitled The Privileged Secrets of the Arch performed by some musicians from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and an opera singer. Anderson’s work is being archived in the Stephen Anderson Collection in the Special Collections Section of the Raynor Libraries at Marquette University. Anderson’s new full-length poetry book, High Wire, was just published in late 2021 by Kelsay Books. more…

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