Analysis of A song so sung, oh sung to its end on a nameless
A song so sung, oh sung to its end on a nameless
All the beginning, the beginning so sweet, sweet mingling oh aimless.
Destiny, what destiny; to say and say?
All destiny, all destiny; they so say.
All their self-traps; they close and close,
By chanting falsely ‘the departed soul' to rest in peace in gloss
They spit and spit ‘created' agony in words of growth,
And so shut their eyes to hide all truth.
Repeat those selfish- “She is the daughter of Earth”
So she well returned and returned to the Earth.
Fearless she was, when she met, met-
The canines horrible of the Death; all hot.
So, so nobody knowing, knowing even her name,
The ‘country' burnt her body to ashes unknown.
All the memory she did bear
Her ‘country' buried all so clear.
Rulers' sons, they kept all jokes,
To share in between; on her death to mock.
They laughed and laughed and laughed all wonder
No one to say a word to them to hinder.
Are they not the ‘lions' to rule this land,
On tomorrow as ‘so harmless' on band.
Are they not the cunning vultures to peck, bite and cut-
The flesh and blood of womanhood, harping, harping all got?
A song, so sung; oh sung, oh sung to its end on a nameless,
All the beginning, the beginning; of so sweet mingling, oh aimless!
Scheme | AABBCDEFGGHIJKLMNOPPQQRIAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111111010 100100010111100110 10011001101 11001100111 11111101 1101000101110101 11010101000111 011111111 011101101011 11101001101 10111111 0110010111 11110101001 010101011001 10100111 01010111 1011111 1100110111 110101110 11110111110 1110101111 101111011 1110101011101 0101110101011 011111111111010 100100010111100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,225 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 942 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 231 |
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Submitted on October 09, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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