Analysis of Alert
Harold Creggan 1950 (Tadcastor)
The right wing, violence brings,
and other noxious things.
Who is there to be blamed?
as another mind by the shadows is claimed.
Brown shirts on alerts ,
while defunct leaders speak treason,
for their own reason.
Stand against the coming tide,
there is no place to hide.
| Scheme | AABBCDDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 0111001 010101 111111 1010110111 11101 10110110 11110 1010101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 328 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 213 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
About this poem
a timely warning
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