Analysis of Disarmament
John McCrae 1872 (Guelph) – 1918 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
One spake amid the nations, "Let us cease
From darkening with strife the fair World's light,
We who are great in war be great in peace.
No longer let us plead the cause by might."
But from a million British graves took birth
A silent voice -- the million spake as one --
"If ye have righted all the wrongs of earth
Lay by the sword! Its work and ours is done."
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101010111 1100110111 1111011101 1101110111 1101010111 0101010111 1111010111 11011101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 366 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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