Analysis of Of Who I Am



This is an expression of who I am:
The battlefields of Vietnam;
The mass graves covered with no respect,
The napalm bombs I must reflect.

A cry to God that must be there;
An aching heart that knows I care;
A fear for loss and great despair.
Can you meet me half way there?

Thoughts divulged with pen in hand;
Deliberations etched in sand.
Now it's time to take a stand,
Declare with pride that I am man.

See me now as I reflect.
I contemplate with great respect.
I love this life and all who are in it,
There's no other way for me to to spin it.

We all exist to show God's love
Yet there's so much we're neglectful of.
There are those who thrive on hate;
It's evil deeds they perpetrate.

Yet we must seek to overcome
And thwart the evil deeds we shun.
From one generation to another
Until we start to live as brothers.


Scheme XXAA BBBB CCCX AADD EEFF XXXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 1110101111 010101 011101101 01011101 01111111 11011111 01110101 1111111 1011101 0010101 1111101 01111111 1111101 1101101 1111011101 11101111111 11011111 111110101 1111111 1101110 1111110 01010111 110101010 011111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 795
Words 160
Sentences 13
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on August 21, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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