Analysis of THE WAR CHILD
What do you know about sympathy
Or indeed the grind of empathy?
What do you know about starvation
In the bowels of your relation?
What do you know about the sounds
Of guns as they offload rounds?
What do you know about despair
When there is no one to repair?
I know because I am a child in a war zone
And I am bruised all alone .
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 111101100 101011100 111101010 001011010 11110101 111111 11110101 11111101 110111010011 0111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 330 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
About this poem
This poem speaks of the human question during war times. Do we really know what it feels like to be in the middle of the conflict.
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