Analysis of YELLOW STAR OF DAVID
THE YELLOW STAR OF DAVID
Long transport coaches come in the night.
Spewing acrid dark strands of coaly smokes repugnant in the sight.
Halting with shrieking noises facing the ghetto hostels by the right.
Hordes of Jewish passengers guarded by the Jewish Police are driven in without a fight.
Beaten by the dreaded Gestapos and troop in with so much might.
Ill-fated Jews prisoners wear the yellow David Star by the arms tight
Despaired of seeing ever the similitude of Moses's guiding light.
When escaping against the Pharaoh's plot throughout the night.
Crossing the dreaded divided Nile River like a flash of a light.
Now, crammed in the wooden coaches like sardines in a can.
Coughing, indistinct yelling like sweltering on a frying pan.
Suffocating and dying one by one without some hushes of a fan.
So deadly, the horrible journey begins at the end.
Auschwitz, Treblinka, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen where they meet their end.
Delousing deadpan humour turns to painful dying bend.
In the gas chamber, Jewish answer was a deadly Zyklone.
Crématoriums are surreptitiously fed alone
With the naked innocent passengers' corpse.
Which in time turn to pallid heaps of crushed ashes.
Scheme | X A A A A A A A A A B B B C C C B XX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110 101101001 101011111010001 10110101001010101 11101001010100111000101 10101010101111 110110010101011011 01110100111101 1010010110101 10010010110101101 11001010101001 1000110110010101 1000101110111101 11001001001101 100101010111111 1111110101 00110101010101 1110100101 10101001001 101111011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,196 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
The poem talks about the Jewish plight during World War II. The transportation of Jewish prisoners to Labour and concentration camps under inhumane treatment.
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