Analysis of Ode to whats been lost
Ode to what’s been lost
Discarded Protocols and broken treaties
that were of our past
what things we’ve lost and might not gain again
why no one spoke or took refrain
We had come so far to keep us sane
we had a compass to keep us steady
to make it clear what’s right and wrong
why or how we’ve turned away
I do not know but hurts us so
What made us great and stand so tall this was known to all
but now we’ve changed and lost our way
from black abyss behind its summit peak
tortured in the name of terror behind a dying flame
who we are and how we’ve changed this must come at last
We must decide and hold our egos pride
we must ask what were going to be
men of Sparta and of war
or democracy freedom and law
Words can loose their meaning and shrivel up and die
when there turned upside down
reframed for plunder destruction and fear
how can we be clear
I saw her columns crumble Corinth and Doric
a little of the world was lost its heart light beats low
and saddened nights in somber days of grey
In spirit they beheld though grief and joys were few
to go against the wind of times blinded by the sun
or in the spirit they beheld will memory fade away
or set a new of a destiny yet seen
Scheme | X XAXB BCXDE XDXXA XCXX XXFF XED XXDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 0101001010 101101 1111011101 11111101 111111111 1101011110 11110101 1111101 11111111 1111011111111 111101101 1101011101 10001110010101 111011111111 1110110101 111101011 1110011 101001001 111110010101 111111 111001001 11111 110101010010 0101011111111 0101010111 01011110101 1101011110101 10010111100101 11011010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,216 |
Words | 250 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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