Analysis of The War
Jones Very 1813 (Salem) – 1880
I saw a war, yet none the trumpet blew,
Nor in their hands the steel-wrought weapons bare;
And in that conflict armed there fought but few,
And none that in the world's loud tumults share;
They fought against their wills,—the stubborn foe
That mail-clad warriors left unfought within,
And wordy champions left unslain below,—
The ravening wolf though drest in fleecy skin;—
They fought for peace,—not that the world can give,
Whose tongue proclaims the war its hands have ceased
And bids us as each other's neighbor live,
Ere haughty Self within us has deceased;
They fought for him whose kingdom must increase,
Good will to men, on earth forever peace.
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Metre | 1101110101 1011011101 0011011111 011001111 1101110101 1111001101 0101001101 011110101 1111110111 1101011111 0111110101 1101011101 1111110101 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 519 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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