Analysis of War Subtracts and Never Adds
The victors own the spoils of war.
The losers are the spoils.
In warfare even when there’s draw.
The human loss the soul recoils.
War subtracts and never adds.
Its aim is never life but death.
It targets lives of fighting lads.
Once exalted, now seen as shibboleth.
So while we weep and while we mourn.
The aftermaths of human folly.
Let us pay heed to what is borne.
The human loss we cannot ever truly tally.
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01010111 010101 0110111 01010101 110101 11110111 11011101 101011110 11110111 01011010 11111111 0101110101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 414 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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No human loss from warfare can we ever truly tally.
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