Analysis of Only The Dead
The drums have restarted,
the chanters proclaim
The dancers with coup sticks
in shadows remain
The flames burn in tribute
to death songs before
Because only the dead
—know the end of war
(Radnor Pennsylvania: January, 2021)
Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010 0101 010111 0101 011010 11101 011001 10111 10010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 217 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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