Analysis of Colours One
Two men of colours white and black
Battling as foes, lay dying on a track
Their colour or creed mattered none
For blood that gushed had colours one
Whatever our colour or creed
At birth on mother’s milk we feed
Mother, father, daughter or son
We are human and we are one
As the world goes around
By compassion let’s be bound
When we part after life’s work done
Say we were diverse, but we were one
Scheme | A A B B C C B B D D B B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 10011110101 1111101 1111111 1010111 11110111 10101011 11100111 101101 1010111 11110111 110011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 420 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 26 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Written on September 15, 2018
Submitted by jn.selvadurai on April 25, 2024
Modified by jn.selvadurai on May 10, 2024
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