Analysis of Days of pain
Joseph Berolo 1934 (Bogotá)
Days of Pain
And there was sadness
and so many cried in the abyss of despair;
our souls and lives knew of ghostly rain of death
and of caves of doom so near,
so close to the labyrinths of fear—
the way we were one day,
no more, no more.
But not at Xmas time, Hanukkah o Ramadhan.
Not at home today under the greenest tree ever grown in all the land.
For hope and greater deeds
and blessed mistletoes adorn
the most sacred time of year—
the warm of all Kabbalahs
keep alive the land of Israel…
—upon the tortured plains of all Fagan,
hope to resolve the darkness
of the land— armed in wait,
the hordes in Iraq
don’t know night or day—
yet the furies seem to die
of death itself—
and in the darkness of the heart.
Scheme | A BXXCCDXAXXXCBXXBXXDXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 01110 011010001101 101011110111 0111111 1110111 011011 1111 1111110011 111011001011010101 110101 01101 0110111 01111 101011100 0101011110 1101010 101101 01001 11111 101111 1101 00010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 22 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 276 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
About this poem
the hordes in Iraq don’t know night or day— yet the furies seem to die of death itself— and in the darkness of the heart.
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Written on December 31, 2001
Submitted by aveviajera on December 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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