Analysis of Tears Of The fatherland
Andreas Gryphius 1616 (Głogów) – 1664 (Głogów)
So, now we are destroyed; utterly; more than utterly!
The gang of shameless peoples, the maddening music of war,
The sword fat with blood, the thundering of the guns
Have consumed our sweat and toil, exhausted our reserves.
Towers are on fire, churches turned upside down;
The town hall is in ruins, the strong cut down, destroyed.
Young girls are raped; wherever we turn our gaze,
Fire, plague, and death pierce heart and spirit through.
Here, town and ramparts run with ever-fresh streams of blood.
It's three times six years now, since our mighty river's flow
Was blocked almost by corpses, just barely trickling through.
Yet, I pass over in silence something more terrible than death,
More desperate even than plague, fire and famine;
That so many were bereaved of their soul's treasure too.
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Metre | 11110110011100 011101001001011 011110100101 101101010101001 101110101111 0111010011101 111101011101 10101110101 110111101111 11111111010101 111110110101 1111001010110011 110101110010 1110001111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 790 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 629 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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