Analysis of Pawns
Who hungers still
After the holocaust?
Baby mourns at Mother's tortured breast
While young men venture homeward
Armies of despair
What imagery of war remains
When the battlefield is cleared?
Forlorn lovers lost against the bloodied clay
Virgin brides again unbridled...
victims of the heart
Who questions raise above the din
The eternal call to arms?
Virgins, young men, babies all?
Believers still in fairy tails
Disciples of ‘the cause'
| Scheme | XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 10010 101110101 1111010 10101 11001101 101011 01101010101 10101010 10101 11010101 0010111 1011101 01010101 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 426 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on October 11, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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