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 |
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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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