Analysis of Saints and Sinners (House of Romanov Crest)
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
Reduced to ash, reborn in heaven
This phoenix forgives the killers in turn
Hopes his destroyers aren't destined to burn
A saint's last words of disbelief
Instill in hangmen extensive grief
Aware of such a vile sin
Fallen conscience, shadows win
As surely as Thy will be done,
An empire melts within the sun
Another waits atop the clouds
Unearthly treasures are endowed
The devil screams, a choir sings
A two-headed eagle spreads its wings
A symbol of the fallen dynasty
Of a king now a saint of memory
Of beauty, of glory, of plummeting power
Of a man fatalistic as the withering flower
Of the heavenly mercy in his last words of breath
Of the tragedy in each untimely cold death
Of the cutthroats devoid of soul and of heart
To try and to fail to tear a family apart
The divine and the vile of eclectic humanity
Immortalized in history's pervasive insanity
Scheme | AABB CCDD AAXX EEFF GGHH IIFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 11111110 011111010 1100101001 11010101011 0111101 01010101 0111011 101011 11011111 110010101 01010101 01010101 01010101 011010111 0101010100 1011011100 110110110010 10100101010010 1010010011111 101000101011 1010111011 1101111010001 00100110100100 010001000100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 874 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on June 03, 2017
Modified on April 12, 2023
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