Analysis of I Can Only Cry
My pain, my grief is nothing
When I look pain of others
And the severe sick people
I have hands, eyes, feet
And sound health
And money to eat
The people who suffer
From the pain
From the diseases
From the hunger
From the cruelty
From the injustice
From the ignorance
Of their blood own blood
I cry, and I cry
Because I want to help
But when I feel that
How much I am powerless
And compelled
I can only think, but cannot do
I cry and pray
When we become human
To feel human sufferings?
Scheme | ABCDEDFGHFIJKLMNOPQRSTU |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 1111110 0001110 11111 011 01011 010110 101 10010 1010 1010 10010 10100 11111 11011 011111 11111 1111100 001 111011101 1101 110110 1110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 382 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on February 08, 2020
Modified on April 06, 2023
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