Analysis of Nature of Man
Come fight me kingdom feller,
Whose footsteps cherry snow,
And show the world the naked thing
Which quivers in your bow.
But if the jay took back it’s coat
And shield struck down to root
Are you the man who tends the tree
Or teaches it to shoot?
| Scheme | XXXX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1111010 11101 01010101 11011 11011111 011111 11011101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 249 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
Drawing parallels from modern day consequences of war and its effects on the environment, this poem asks the reader to reflect on human instinct, and who’s shoulders the responsibility of war falls on.
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