Analysis of Day After Day
The German soldiers searched
for the young and old
everyone in between
health and freedom stolen
captured like a firefly in a jar
where the light eventually fades out
the faces that were once smiling
are now blank
blank but not from confusion
blank because they felt nothing
except for the built-up frustrations
and the lingering waves of death in the air
hundreds shoved in a building
only the strongest few survived
clouds of death penetrating souls
whispering goodnight to anyone in its path
the piercing screams in the night
the stench of burning flesh in the day
so little sleep
their bodies and minds could never truly rest
they would never be at peace
not until their very last breath
mothers and fathers
their innocent young
separated by a living devil
all hope lost
for they’d be tortured
their bodies drowned in illness and beatings
all minds scarred forever
for the gas wasn't just a cloud in the sky
it was a blanket of death
waiting to be placed on them
never truly living
just trying so hard to survive
scratching tally marks in the wall
with their broken dirt filled nails
just counting
day after day
praying they could stop soon
and their freedom would return
they just wanted to draw that line
until their fates were decided
just one last line.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHDGIJGKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1 S2 G3 4 5 GO6 7 8 9 8 |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 10101 10001 101010 101010001 1010100011 01010110 111 1111010 1011110 011011010 00100111001 1010010 10010101 1111001 1001110011 0101001 011101001 1101 11001110101 1110111 10111011 10010 11001 100101010 111 11110 1101010010 111010 10110101001 1101011 1011111 101010 11011101 10101001 1110111 110 1101 101111 0110101 11101111 0111010 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,267 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 43 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,034 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 224 |
About this poem
This poem is an informational piece of what I believe it was like for those imprisoned in Holocaust concentration camps.
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Written on November 08, 2022
Submitted by rosel.30967 on November 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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