Analysis of FALL OF WAR
Barry Green Jr 1973 (Florida)
FALL OF WAR
A whistle past your head
An inch from being dead
A shell blasts the world apart
A fire burning from the start
This is the fall of war
Behold God knocks at the Door
In the foxhole soldiers pray
As the world gets blown away
The enemy's name doesn't matter
The whole world will shatter
Here in the fall of war
See, our God is at the Door
The Smoke chokes out the sky
As our soldiers start to die
Fight on, soldier, fight on
For darkness finds the dawn
The world sees the fall of war
For our God is at the Door
Death, is the only rest
Found in a soldier's test
As friends fall on every side
And all your tears are cried
For we witness the fall of war
As our God is at the door
Tell me do you know why
It's a victory for us to die?
We stand here in your place
God Grant us Your Grace
As we bring the Fall of war
Oh God, Open up that door!
Smoke on the quiet morning
Death and the cries of mourning
Soldier's guns lay forgotten in mud
As rain washed away the blood
Is peace the fall of war?
As God shuts again the Door
Scheme | A BBCCAA DDEEAA FFXXAA GGHHAA FFIIAA JJKKAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 010111 111101 0110101 01010101 110111 0111101 001101 1011101 010011010 011110 100111 11011101 011101 11010111 111011 110101 0110111 11011101 110101 100101 11111001 011111 11100111 11011101 111111 101001111 111011 11111 1110111 1110111 1101010 1001110 101101001 1110101 110111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,043 |
Words | 229 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
Fall of war. Is it peace, or the absence of war? Of strife? Or is it the absence of life? When we walk through the door into eternity? I'm not sure. Even after writing this
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