Analysis of A Condoling Dirge
When chronicles are written,
And history is transcribed,
And men of war bear witness,
Unto sufferings described.
When dead and dying swell,
There in regions of battle,
And bloodied snow blankets the terrain,
Unto incursions in Seattle.
When Jack Raider was hung,
And his rebel army yielded,
And the red shirts marched in dung,
Unto atrocities they divided.
Not a terror, not a terror more,
Onwards where coffins lay,
And bones exposed in the ditches,
Unto a cruelty after midday.
O servant, inheritor of death,
Yet, in life and breathing,
Men who surrendered under duress,
Unto repression freezing.
Not a beggar, not a beggar seen,
Men of fraud might ne'er fight,
But they died anyway, and so decayed,
Unto a trembling belated night.
When the ghosts of men rise,
And populate the earth,
And release foreboding spirits,
Unto a despicable birth.
When the malefic fear comes,
And diabolical as they are,
Conspirators of evil, factual in print,
Unto the end of war by far.
O to grieve there, till I'm slain,
And have grave so laden,
Where bones and rifles will lie,
Unto a rising quiet brazen.
Scheme | ABXB XCDC EFEF XGXG XHXH XIXI XJXJ XKXK DAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1100110 0100101 0111110 1010001 110101 1010110 010110001 100100010 111011 01101010 0011101 1001001010 101010101 101101 01010010 10010101 110010011 101010 110101010 1001010 101010101 111111 111100101 1001000101 101111 01001 00101010 10001001 10111 00100111 010011010001 10011111 1111111 011110 1101011 100101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,063 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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