Analysis of On the release of the freedom fighters
No cause is worth the price in blood
of them who did no harm,
and guilt cannot escape a man
who cost a child his arm
nor they who gave the death command
to kill to give insight
are free of heinous crimes in deed
by virtue they were right;
if men who love not
life itself should live to roam the earth,
then love itself can give no life
to men of hated birth!
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 111111 01100101 110111 11110101 11111 11110101 110101 11111 101111101 11011111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 356 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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