Analysis of Tragedy At Home



there is sadness in the air,
as the world stands still and quiet.
tears spill to the earth,
you hear hearts breaking in the wind.
and all of mankind stands in silence,
disgust, and dismay.
what a tragic and utterly horrific event to bring mankind together.
thousands now sleep with the stars.
but a thousand words can not exspress our pain.
standing as a nation, as one, we cry.
never fully understanding the atrocity that has forever changed out lives.
how can so much sadness be given in one day?
i fear we will never understand.
its as if we were all lost inside a nightmare or a tragic dream.
but from this we can not wake, now we can
only try, to live on.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 645
Words 125
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 516
Words per stanza (avg) 125
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 20, 2023

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