Analysis of ROSES OF WAR
ROSES OF WAR
How can such horror from afar
Usher heartbreak to my door
For, I only know of where they are
Never seeing their faces before
Delicate roses lying amidst the rocks
Once bright and innocent souls
Children and their building blocks
Leave hearts with endless holes
The world is forced to sit and witness
Another repeat of old empires
With actions of such luridness
Again, misusing all their powers
A silence heard around the world
Resonates louder than the bombs
Empathetic arms extend unfurled
Along, with chanting prayers and psalms
Oh hopeless ones do not stay shaken
For the light of day has come
The scattered roses will not be taken
Their seeds are planted, love has won
The actions of those who defy love
Will not leave us forlorn
For the glorious rose always blooms above
The stem, despite the sharpest thorns
By: Monica Mabrey
| Scheme | A BABA CDCD XECE FXFX GXGG HXHX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 11110101 101111 111011111 101011001 10010100101 1101001 1001101 111101 011111010 0100111100 110111 010101110 01010101 1010101 01010101 01110101 110111110 1011111 0101011110 11110111 010111011 111101 1010011101 01010101 110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 856 |
| Words | 155 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem after watching the news about the war in Ukraine. It was my way of processing and coping with the highly disturbing footage coming from the Ukraine.
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Written on March 03, 2022
Submitted by mbelka2014 on March 29, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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