Analysis of IT REALLY SNOWS IN HELL
Barry Green Jr 1973 (Florida)
IT REALLY SNOWS IN HELL
The cold of the storm brushed against me
Through the swirling snow I tried to see
The harder I looked, the harder it fell
They lie you know, it really snows in Hell
The gunshots rang through the storm
Meet the enemy, in death alone be warm
Fighting both nature and my fellow man
Lord, I really don't know if I can
Jonsey got hit, there in the head
Mickey lies in the snow up ahead
Don't even know how I'll ever get out alive
And Lord do I even want to survive?
Then a shot rang out, the answer never seemed so clear
Only the living have death to face and cold to fear
The cold of the storm brushed against me
Through the swirling snow I tried to see
The harder I looked, the harder it fell
They lie you know, it really snows in Hell
Scheme | a BBAA ccddeeffgg BBAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 011011011 101011111 0101101011 1111110101 011101 10100010111 1011001101 111011111 1111001 101001101 110111101101 0111101101 1011101010111 1001011110111 011011011 101011111 0101101011 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 759 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 10, 4 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
About this poem
War is the coldest of man's cruelty to man
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