Analysis of Of war and Hopes
Joseph Berolo 1934 (Bogotá)
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 |
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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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