Analysis of Children of war




If you are pure without without a stain
Like the unchanging sun
Then transmit the enclosed letter
To only those who shall suffer and mourn

I tell no common tale of grief
Of those slaughtered innocents
For whose doom I am weeping
Whose passing bell is none
Who ate the sour grape of man's inhumanity
Where nymphs play rustic sounds of death
Where they fell; there they died
Lay still and fertilizers the field

Here lies their works and their bones
And life itself resigns, in a silent grave
You can throw uncommon sight


Scheme XAXX XXXAXXXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010101 100101 10100110 1101111001 11110111 1110100 1111110 110111 1101011100100 11110111 111111 11010001 1111011 01010100101 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 504
Words 94
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 8, 3
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on August 21, 2014

Modified on March 21, 2023

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Christopher Azakor Nwakwesi

I am a Nigerian and a financial economist with diverse occupational experiences as a banker,career civil servant,petroleum economist and insurance man.I write poetry and short stories with many public and private appearances.To me poetry is a heritage because I came from a background where great and special events are marked poetically. more…

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