Analysis of They Were Still Alive - Tribute To America, Part 3
The bellows of smoke that rose in the air; still had poignant traces of their breath,
The splinters of glass shattered all around; still had profound stains of their blood,
The gargantuan slabs of concrete lying in disarray; still had brutally pulverized fragments of their valiant bones,
The incoherently shaped mirrors poking out from the rubble; still had their terrorized reflections,
The sordid bits of paper blended with stone; still had embodiments of their last minute declarations,
The disastrously squelched telephone pieces; still had shrill recordings of their horrified and ghastly screams,
The unconsumed cakes of food adhering to the severely distorted lifts; still had vivacious traces of their saliva,
The strands of metallic junk diffusing from the broken car seats; still had the blurred photo of their beloved,
The ripped apart fragments of curtain cloth wound limply around the gleaming iron nails; still contained curled masses of their blood soaked hair,
The disdainfully beaten pieces of plaster engulfed in clouds of dust; were still impregnated with scores of their shimmering teeth,
The mud sprinkled for kilometers on the stretch; was still moist with their river of agonized tears; which must have profusely oozed out from their cheeks,
The mammoth sized pillars which once held the building one piece from beneath; were still flooded with bonquet's of bruised flowers which they had been just
rewarded for their achievements,
The eagle which incessantly encircled the appalling sight; still had their expensive chains of silver in its beak,
The thoroughly dismantled upholstery buried several feet under the debris; still contained compassionate traces of their warmth,
The computer screens split apart into infinite halves; still displayed nostalgic images of their eyes,
The majestic wall paintings battered and bashed from all sides; still had animated marks of their caress,
The revolving chairs now an inconspicuous shadow of themselves; still had a fine conglomerate of chocolate powder; which they must be merrily munching a few
seconds before,
The colossal chimneys which were now reduced to matchsticks; still had their countless dreams rampantly lingering around,
And who says they were dead? , for if not anybody; but it is my firm belief that they were living; as no matter how unprecedented was the tragedy; no matter how horrific their destiny had been; their hearts were palpitating louder than outside world several feet below the rubble; with each beat louder than the other and proclaiming that THEY WERE STILL BREATHING AND ALIVE.
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| Metre | 0101111001111010111 01111010111011111 0010011011000111100101011101 000100110101101011110010 0101110101111111110010 001001101011101011100101 01111010100100101110101011010 0110101010101011110111101 0101101101110101010110111011111 0110101100101110101011111001 011010101011111110110111101011111 01011011101011101011011111011111 01011010 01010100010001011110101110011 010001001001010110001101010010111 00101101011001101010100111 001011010011111110011101 001011101001101110101001101011111001001 1001 0010101010111111101110001 01110111110001111101110101110101001010011010101100111101000101111101010101111010100010110110001 |
| Characters | 2,577 |
| Words | 404 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 19 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 101 |
| Words per line (avg) | 19 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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