Analysis of The Children Of War
Like nebula, those soft-spoken eyes are in tear,
and finger-tips ply stars, upheld in silent breach.
Out on the heaven's own outer realms compare,
double the sorrow's near fatal downward reach.
Implore those pearly ramparts, with your ailing,
fill full these skies, with echoes of soul in strain.
Let begin beguiling unravel, sacred in unveiling,
of treaty's keep, untoward tales, reveal the pain.
For children of collateral, in a cross-hair's focal,
have spoken in tongues of silence, on this crime.
While with little hands, paddling on clouds local,
grasp gate's pearly cobble, while angel's whine.
Let the sacrifice cease, man of mercenary arm,
let God beseech on behalf, your soul to teach.
These are your sons and daughters, you storm,
this future you plunder, the names you impeach!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 110011101101 010111010101 11010110101 1001110101 0111011110 11111101101 101010010100010 110100110101 11010100001110 11001110111 111011001110 111010111 10101111001 11011011111 111101011 11011001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 783 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on August 02, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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