Analysis of Against the war
Thoughts that from the front darkened by waxy flashes and congealed blood escape death and recreate old enmities and chains of inhuman figures.
War it is.
A word a bullet.
Not the same.
War it is.
Pacifists oblivious to the curve of time
and irredeemers applauding the purifying fury,
foretaste the joy of the righteous.
There is no justice,
horror becomes acclamation.
There is no logic in the smoke spirals and deaths
of ordinary bistro narrators.
War it is,
because war must be.
Calming the spirits of the righteous
burying scattered consciences of the short century.
| Scheme | aBcdBefgghiaBfgf |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110110110100011011010110001101010 111 01010 101 111 100010010111 01010010010 01011010 11110 1001010 111100011001 11001010 111 01111 100101010 10010100101100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 588 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Written on July 05, 2022
Submitted by franco.cilli59 on November 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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