Analysis of When I Was an Editor
Stephan Stephansson 1853 (Stefán Guðmundur Guðmundsson Skagafjörður) – 1927
So maudlin, with pity and pathos I stood
If someone who erred got the lashes;
If hanged, I'd weep over the ashes.
With vocal dispraise such injustice I viewed
But somehow as soon as the war-craze ensued,
When slaughter en masse was the popular mood
And corpses all over the planet were strewed,
With dumb indecision I stood.
For there was the problem of friendships and food
- One's sympathies nobody cashes.
To dampen my conscience-clashes
The cracks in my honor I artfully glued
With unctuous lies that I hastily brewed
- And cheered just as loud as I could.
Scheme | ABXC CCAA CBBCCA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011001011 11111010 111110010 1101101011 1111101101 11011101001 01011001001 11001011 11101011001 1100110 11011010 01011011001 1101111001 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 555 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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