Analysis of A Sad Story
How was one a travesty
And genocide but another
Statistic daily
Who was here first
Man or Earth or
God
And if the farm
Be for the people
Why do we rush and wish
Other people gone
In today's statistic daily
Another million gone
Or is it because the earth
Has to ventilate
No excuses made
If i had to choose
Between my farm and my son
The farm is surely gone
If i had to choose
Between my son and my God
Surely the son be gone
But thankfully
There is no choice
To be made today
But travesty and statistics
Still have their way
| Scheme | axa xxb xxxc ac xx x Dxc Dbc axe xe |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110100 0101010 01010 1111 1111 1 0101 11010 111101 10101 00101010 010101 1110101 1110 10101 11111 0111011 011101 11111 0111011 100111 1100 1111 11101 11000010 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 511 |
| Words | 108 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 4, 2, 2, 1, 3, 3, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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