Analysis of Choice
Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)
One question alone remains,
what are you willing to do about it.
Not what can you do, what might you do,
what should you do,
all those are easily answered.
But what are you willing to do about it.
Will you take it to a different place,
where failure is not an option.
No easy exit to embrace.
Are you willing to burn your boats,
like Cortes of old.
Or stand like the Spartans before the never ending horde.
Are you willing to say no further,
This is where it ends.
Nothing passes here, whatever hell may send.
If you can't meet this question with a full committed yay,
then by all means,run off to fight on some other day,
or plan escapes, make excuses, find some other way,
but to run from fear and misfortune,
from our clear duty if we stray.
Then we must live forever, a beast of burden,
carrying our weakness from that day.
Scheme | X A B B X A C D C X X X X X X E E E D E D E |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100101 1111011011 111111111 1111 11110010 11111011011 1111101001 11011110 11010101 11101111 1111 1110101010101 111011110 11111 1010110111 11111101010101 111111111101 1101101011101 111110010 110110111 111101001110 1001010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 22 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
About this poem
Its about choice ,rise and resist ,or fall and carry
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