Analysis of The Broken Promise
We fight
We kill ~
Will we never find a way
to live peacefully with each other;
The Cross
The Crescent
The Star?
Blood spills,
Children scream
as women are beaten and raped ~
In the name of whose God,
these deeds
of shame
and horror?
Silent witnesses,
Innocent victims,
Hands raised, voices pleading, eyes weeping ~
When will we end this nightmare?
Leaden skies,
Rain falls;
I weep.
| Scheme | XXXAXXX XXXXXXA XXXXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 11 1110101 111001110 01 010 01 11 101 11011001 001111 11 11 010 10100 10010 111010110 111111 101 11 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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