Analysis of He Who Fights And Runs Away...
Bob Marley
was not joking
was not joking
when he sang the song:"He who fights and runs away,
lives to fight another day."
Saddam Hussein
fought
and refused
to run away.
Saddam Hussein fought his battle
and refused to run away,
and refused to run away,
and could not fight another day
and could not fight another day
because
there was
no more battle to fight.
If you want to live to fight another,
fight and run away,
fight and run away.
| Scheme | xAAbb xxxb xBBBBxxx xBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 110 1110 1110 11101110101 1110101 1001 1 001 1101 10011110 0011101 0011101 01110101 01110101 01 11 111011 1111111010 10101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 449 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 8, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Saddam Hussein fought...and refused to run away and died.
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