Analysis of A call to them all
A CALL TO THEM ALL:
BY Joshua Dykes
There are many men who rise and stand tall,
And there are also many men who act as fools and thus fall
There is but one word to define these men twice,
And it is the word 'Sacrifice'.
There are rare men who stand tall and fall,
And this is a call to them all.
O' men who have lived such wonderful lives,
men who have also carried many pains and strifes,
Listen to the words I am fixin' to tell you!
Or else bid your legacy adieu!
The very definition of bravery to me
is sacrificing oneself to set another free.
See, to you bravery may be easy to achieve
but would you be willing to sacrifice yourself for me?
Would you be willing to rise
And would you be willing to fall?
So that I can live my life free
and so you can keep your legacy?
Keep fighting and stand tall!
To these rare men, A call to them all!
Scheme | AX AABBAAXXCCDDXDXADDAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111 11001 1110111011 011101011111011 11111101111 0110110 111111101 01101111 1111111001 111101010101 10101111111 111110001 010010110011 11001110101 1111001110101 1111101100111 1111011 01111011 11111111 011111100 110011 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 820 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 20 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 325 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on August 11, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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