Analysis of Of war and Hopes



Of War and Hopes

Stars are shining, the earthly stars of Bogota,
bright and warm  above the green savanna
hanging close to touch, the night of cries
and woes defied with lasting rays of hope.

Far Up North, my other home, kept awake
crossing lands of tortuous routes of war,
in the fateful dawn  of  joyous  Thanks to Life,
meets its pilgrim’s journey, dining hopes.

It is a world of riddles, by seismic seas
surrounded, in the darkest region faces
hell beyond the mind, beastly brains
abound, insolvable abysses, death upon
the routes of hellish herbs, rivers black of hate,
run in beds of greed  and bloody sands,

Peace! claims mankind, only stars
hanging from our soul desire,
away from crazy deeds, courses dream
of joy, in pray, we wait for days of sanity.


Scheme A XXXX XXXA XXXXXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 11100101101 1010101010 101110111 0101110111 1111101101 1011100111 00101110111 111010101 11011101101 01000101010 1010111 0111101 01110110111 101110101 1111101 101101010 011101101 110111111100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 774
Words 150
Sentences 4
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 6, 4
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 28

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in pray, we wait for days of sanity.

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Written on December 23, 2003

Submitted by aveviajera on December 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Joseph Berolo

Joseph Berolo, Colombian born. swiss italian descendant. Poet and writer founder of Naciones Unidas de las Letras, United Nations of the Arts dedicated to promote world peace and harmony through the teaching of poetry and the Fine Arts in the heart and minds of young people,. more…

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