Analysis of Stranger
Primo Levi 1919 (Turin) – 1987 (Turin)
From whatever country you come,
look at the ruins of the camp.
Think, and do all you can,
so your pilgrimage
be not in vain,
as was not in vain our death…
For you and your children,
the ashes of Auschwitz are
a warning.
Act so that the terrible fruit
of hatred,
whose traces you saw here,
will never grow a new seed
neither tomorrow, nor ever!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 11010101 101111 11100 1101 11101101 110110 0101101 010 11101001 110 110111 1101011 1001110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 332 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 265 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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