Analysis of In Violent Fields

ted s owens 1949 (SC)



In violet fields,
no eye is on the sparrow.
It flits amidst the rage of sling and arrow.
And though to it no refuge calls, still,
It beats its wing until to earth it falls a breathless thing.
How frail a thread holds hope above the fray.
Too soon it yields to weight of mortal wound.
And sparrows lie in fields like buds that never bloom.


Scheme ABBCDEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 01001 1111010 11010111010 011111011 11110111110101 1101110101 1111111101 010101111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 341
Words 74
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 264
Words per stanza (avg) 66

About this poem

Based on personal experience in Vietnam

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Written on January 02, 2022

Submitted by BU3 on January 23, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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