Analysis of The Liberty Dance
The Liberty Dance
The last dance of air..
It bathed my brow
With a cotton light brush
Pushed back my hair
Out beyond the crown
Out, out, it danced free
In the changing breeze,
Tugging my eyelids shut,
Teasing tiny hairs to sway.
Gather dust from
The blast of killing gas
Cracking my cheek
Over bursting bone
Then sheer utter
Darkness from the bang
Snapping against
The wall behind
A height that hangs tall
Over another head
As I fall for my liberty
Worthless and dead!
| Scheme | X AXXAXBXXX XXXXXXXX XCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001 01111 1111 101011 1111 10101 11111 00101 10111 1010111 1011 011101 1011 10101 1110 10101 1001 0101 01111 100101 11111100 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 482 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 9, 8, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
Deciding to participate in war, to defend what you have been told , is that necessarily the "right thing to do"? Maybe so. But when you are killed you are dead - no use to anyone. My poem asks a question about the wars for Irish unity throughout the generations
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