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 | |
Metre | 1110001 10111010 11101 11110001 011111010 01001 10100100010011111010 1011101 10101111101 1010101111 10100100010011010111 111110110011 11111001 1111011010110101 1111111111 101111 |
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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