Analysis of The Damned
My days are haunted by the thought
Of men in coils of Justice caught
With stone and steel, in chain and cell,
Of men condemned to living hell,--
Yet blame them not.
In my sun-joy their dark I see:
For what they are and had to be
Blame Nature, red in tooth and claw,
Blame laws beyond all human law,
--Blame Destiny.
Behind blind walls I see them go,
Grim spectres of eternal woe,
Drained grey of hope, dead souls of self-slain,--
And yet I know with pang of pain
It must be so.
I know that brother's blood they've spilt,
And sons of Cain must pay their guilt;
I know the deviltries that stem
From dark abyss we must condemn;
I know that but for heaven's grace
We might be rotting in their place:
--God pity them!
Scheme | XABBA CCDDC EEFFE GGHHIIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11011101 11010101 11011101 1111 01111111 11110111 11010101 11011101 1100 01111111 1110101 111111111 01111111 1111 11110111 01111111 110111 11011101 11111101 11110011 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 809 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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