Analysis of Who Made The Law ?
Leslie Coulson 1889 – 1916
Who made the Law that men should die in shadows ?
Who spake the word that blood should splash in lanes ?
Who gave it forth that gardens should be bone-yards ?
Who spread the hills with flesh, and blood, and brains ?
Who made the Law ?
Who made the Law that Death should stalk the village ?
Who spake the word to kill among the sheaves,
Who gave it forth that death should lurk in hedgerows,
Who flung the dead among the fallen leaves ?
Who made the Law ?
But who made the Law ? the Trees shall whisper to him:
'See, see the blood - the splashes on our bark !'
Walking the meadows, he shall hear bones crackle,
And fleshless mouths shall gibber in silent lanes at dark.
Who made the Law ? At noon upon the hillside
His ears shall hear a moan, his cheeks shall feel a breath,
And all along the valleys, past gardens, croft, and homesteads,
HE who made the Law,
He who made the Law,
He who made the Law
shall walk along with Death.
WHO made the Law ?
Scheme | abxbC xdadC xexexfxCCCfC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 1101111101 11111101111 1101110101 1101 11011111010 1101110101 1111111101 1101010101 1101 111010111011 11010101101 1001111110 01111010111 1101110101 111101111101 0101010110101 11101 11101 11101 110111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 947 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 12 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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