Analysis of The Innocents
We are not strangers to war,
but how it feels this time.
I don’t know what to do,
I have no place to go. I
have no strength left
to pull myself together
I cannot find the words.
Still, I must find the words.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 111111 111111 1111111 1111 111010 110101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
About this poem
This poem speaks of our fragility especially in times of conflict (as is happening now in the Middle East and Ukraine), and yet how we find comfort and some light from words, either written, spoken or sung.
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