Analysis of war is hell
War is hell
And we are to
What are the people
Goanna do
Some will run
Some will hide
But most of them
Will likely die
Blood overflows
The river bank
Governors invest
In tanks
We put our faith
Within our troops
But we'll all die
Unless theirs truce
Scheme | XAXA XXXB XXXX XXBX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 111 0111 11010 11 111 111 1111 1101 110 0101 10001 01 11101 01101 1111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 247 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on August 26, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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