Analysis of At Any Cost
Symptomatic folly,
the tail now wags the dog
Whose bark, it whimper’s drolly,
all teeth removed and gone
Reacting, never acting,
new victims every day
All courage has retracted,
—the future in harms way
Jailed speech unto the warden,
whose words may not contend
Our patriotic burden,
its truth we must defend
With cowards grabbing power,
a swamp that we must cross
Lies from ivory towers,
—to fell at any cost
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
| Scheme | AX AX XB XB CD CD XX XX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010 011101 11111 110101 0101010 1101001 1101010 010011 1110010 111101 1001010 111101 1101010 011111 1110010 111101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 449 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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