Analysis of Over
Valiantstar 1961 (Sydney)
Over ninety charges where's the kitchen sink?
They need a Saviour, they've come to the brink!
Like iron and clay they cannot mix.
Bring on the day there's no other fix.
So on and on they stumble, fools lead the way;
Everyone entangled by the lies they replay.
Tearing us apart divided we can't stand.
Hell fire released with a cunning slight of hand..
Does climate change cause earthquakes? Or stop the wind to blow? Can it control the heavens? Can it reverse the flow?
They may go on for decades
No one really knows.
The writings on the wall though
He calls to those He chose.
Scheme | A A B B C C D D E XF E F |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010101 110111101 110011101 110111101 11011101101 10010101101 10101010111 110011010111 1101111101111101010110101 1111101 11101 0101011 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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