Analysis of WAR



When men are soon gone,
for sake of what that men wage war.

When history tells of the ill, he's done,
no nobler his flag for one man's ego to score.

I ponder,
of so much death and mayhem to deplore.

When men are soon gone,
for sake of what that men wage war.


Scheme AB xb xb AB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 11111111 1100110111 110111111011 110 111101101 11111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 262
Words 64
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 49
Words per stanza (avg) 14

About this poem

Of each man's insane requirement to tool his flag in order to massacre the many innocent, and of other men who refuse to stop this pendulum of perpetual madness from swinging.

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Written on March 23, 2022

Submitted by compostwise on March 03, 2023

Modified on April 15, 2023

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