Analysis of For Peace
Harriet Monroe 1860 (Chicago) – 1936 (Arequipa)
Flowers grow in the grass,
Baby footfalls pass
Over the fields once red,
Over the hero's head—
For Peace.
The earth, through her leafy veil,
Whispers a magic tale;
And the scholar reads in the clod
The latest news of God—
For Peace.
Brave little wires are spun
For voices to fly upon;
Words out of clouds are caught
From some witch's woof of thought
For Peace.
And the cataract's foamy troubles
Illumine a million bubbles,
In some city far away
Turning the night to day—
For Peace.
Proud trains, heralds austere,
Bring far-off nations near,
Piercing the mountain's crown,
Treading the barriers down—
For Peace.
Swift ships, that pound the sea,
Set the earth-chained spirit free,
Show the whole round world unrolled
Before the young moon grows old—
For Peace.
And the white-winged aeroplane
Laughs, in its mad disdain,
At limits and barricades
And cruisers and cavalcades—
For Peace.
Even the war engines dread—
The guns with bomb-shells fed,
The grim gray battle-ships—
Shout through their iron lips
For Peace.
Oh, never a hero's grave
But for Peace his life he gave!
And the warrior bears his scar,
And the poet sings of war
For Peace.
Scheme | aabbC ddbxC exxxCffggC hhiiC jjbxC exxaC bbkkC llxxC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001 1011 100111 100101 11 0110101 100101 00101001 010111 11 1101011 1101101 111111 1110111 11 0011010 101010 0110101 100111 11 111001 111101 100101 1001001 11 111101 1011101 101111 0101111 11 00111 101101 110010 01001 11 1001101 011111 011101 111101 11 1100101 1111111 00100111 0010111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,149 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 10, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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