Analysis of The Olive Tree
Against a bloody fence
She leant so tired
Surrounded and imprisoned
by thorny barbed wires
Upon her old branches
memories were carved
of people who resisted
of kids who starved
Feeling the near danger
The sky's suffocation
to again rain blood
and she once witnessed
the uprising of stones
and the cowardice of enemies
those behind thrones
She kept her identity
The green Olive Tree
standing tall in Palestine
The land of the free
| Scheme | A X X X X B X B X X X X X X A C C X C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101 110110 0100010 110110 010110 10001 1101010 1111 100110 01010 10111 01110 001011 001001100 1011 1100100 01101 101010 01101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 429 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 19 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 19 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Submitted on February 21, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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