Analysis of Blood on the streets
Mangled bodies lie strewn around
Mongrels howl
A mother cradles
Her limp two-month old.
Cameras click
With furious pace
As the ambulance
Picks up the human remains.
Not far away
A grim-faced prime minister
Declares war on terrorism
Pledges peace.
A little boy runs
In the neighbourhood
Staring skywards
To monitor his kite.
The Himalayas stare down
From their icy heights
Frozen for eternity
Amid the violence.
| Scheme | AXBX XXCX XXXX XABX XXXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (25%) Quatrain (20%) |
| Metre | 10101101 11 01010 01111 1001 11001 10100 1101001 1101 0111100 0111100 101 01011 001 101 110011 001011 11101 1010100 010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 391 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on November 04, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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