Analysis of The Morning Paper
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
Carnage!
Humanity disgraced!
Time's dearest toil effaced!
Poison gases and flame
Putting Nero to shame!
Bayonet, bomb and shell!
Merry reading for hell!
The wickedness! the waste!
Courage!
To gain their fiery goal,
Some crumbling, blood-soaked knoll,
How fearlessly they fling
Their flesh to suffering,
Offer their ardent breath
To gasping, shuddering death!
O miracle of soul!
Scheme | ABBCCDDBEFFGGHHF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 010001 11011 101001 101011 10101 101011 010001 10 1111001 1100111 1111 111100 101101 1101001 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 370 |
Words | 59 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 302 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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