Children of war
If you are pure without without a stain
Like the unchanging sun
Then transmit the enclosed letter
To only those who shall suffer and mourn
I tell no common tale of grief
Of those slaughtered innocents
For whose doom I am weeping
Whose passing bell is none
Who ate the sour grape of man's inhumanity
Where nymphs play rustic sounds of death
Where they fell; there they died
Lay still and fertilizers the field
Here lies their works and their bones
And life itself resigns, in a silent grave
You can throw uncommon sight
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Submitted on August 21, 2014
Modified on March 21, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXX XXXAXXXX XXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 504 |
Words | 94 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 3 |
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