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
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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