Analysis of Save Peace

kaveh afrasiabi 1958 (United States)



Save peace and hover over it
with your wings of dove, your earthly guards;
no more kingdoms of shreds and pieces,
no more slaves and masters, no more dialogue of the deaf.
Save peace and save it from murderers and villains, the vice of
empire-builders, save it from the naysayers to peace, who pocket it
for cash, and the dishonest ghosts of guilt, pity, and terror, the spirits of
the dead who died in battles gasping for relief.
Save peace like a gardener who sees his flowers bloom, a man dwelt by a
churchyard, who is close enough to Bohemia.
Angels and ministers of grace protect him,
though he's in such a questionable pitiful shape.  
Enjoy the golden dew of hope, the timorous dreams of peace.
In all houses in every land, it now suffers night and day.


Scheme ABCDEAEFGGHIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 111111101 111011010 1110101110101 110111100010011 10010111010111101 1100010111100100101 011101010101 111010011110101110 11110110100 10010011011 1101010001001 010101110100111 0110010011110101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 775
Words 150
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 597
Words per stanza (avg) 138

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Written on January 12, 2022

Submitted by kavehafrasiabi on January 16, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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kaveh afrasiabi

Political scientist, author of many books including Pandemic Mirror and Metaphors in September. more…

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