Analysis of No Words
The Lord came to our little town,
a babe in arms, fragile and pure.
He grew as all God’s children do
to live and work in God’s own land,
by healing sick – through God’s own hand.
When on the cross so crucified,
the New-Found Christians blamed the Jews,
creating loathing and hatred
never witnessed across the lands,
murdering them – through their own hands.
Hitler’s Nazis pervaded lands.
They whipped, burnt then banned Jewish man.
Jews lost jobs, their homes and their lives,
as part of Hitler’s cleansing plan –
their deaths this time – on Hitler’s hands.
No words describe this holocaust.
No words convey this genocide.
No words can ever replace loss
of jobs, of wealth, or lives so lost.
No words…
Scheme | XXXAA BXXCC CDXDC EBXEX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 011110101 01011001 11111101 11010111 11011111 1101110 01110101 01010010 10100101 10011111 1100101 11111101 11111011 1111101 1111111 1101110 1101110 1111011 11111111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 727 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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We must learn from history! But do we?
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