Analysis of Enter The Sword
So you think you have won
Launch a barrage of vicious lies
to plague a vulnerable heart
and innocent mind
Behold within contaminated rivers
flows pristine waters
Pivot a man's enduring friend
into a newfangled enemy
Amongst storm seeped skies
I captured rays of sunlight
Devour someone's aspirations
diminish their hope
Underneath the rust
glitters untarnished gold
Owning the TRUTH
I perceive these things
Your greatest fear has arrived
Enter the sword
Decimate the body
the spirit remains untainted
Lost in a maze of deception
truth guides me to an exit
In the midst of a gruesome nightmare
I envision a peaceful dream
Armed with my blade
I am prepared to strike
| Scheme | A BXX CC XD BX XX XX XX X X DX AX XX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 10011101 11010001 01001 0101010010 11010 10010101 01010100 01111 110111 0101010 01011 0101 1011 1001 10111 1101101 1001 10010 01001010 10011010 1111110 00110101 10100101 1111 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 679 |
| Words | 127 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 14 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
About this poem
The truth in this poem is used metaphorically as a sword that has the power to cut down the manipulative and deceptive they live in fear of the day they will be confronted with the undeniable truth from which they cannot lie and manipulate there way out of it
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