Analysis of Once a Soldier, Always a Soldier.
The relentless aggression I witness
I bleed crimson, screams of agony resonate
Through the brick walls they travel
When will this fantasy end?
To be in this world one day
With no bodies to bury I pray.
The aroma of my past follows me where I go
In my heart there is no more optimism to show.
A statue once so pure, tainted by the history growing through it
I wonder if I will ever be clean
If the marks of war, days of terror
Will wash off.
I look in the mirror
And what looks back at me is a stranger.
My mind cannot accept
This new truth, the fact that there walks a prisoner deep in despair
Inside a body that once belonged to the dirt.
Inside a body destined to be hurt
Destined for greatness they said
What I didn't know was that they wanted me dead.
We must press on, we have to overcome.
We are forced to fight, we want to be done.
I grew my hair out
And changed the clothes I used to wear
To avoid seeing my trauma glare back at me
Scheme | XXXXAA BBXXCX CCXDEEFF XXXDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010010110 11101110010 1011110 1111001 1101111 111011011 0010111101111 011111110011 0111110101001011 1101111011 101111110 111 110010 0111111010 111001 1110111101001001 010101101101 0101010111 1011011 111011111011 111111110 1111111111 11111 01011111 101101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 943 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
About this poem
I started writing with no real idea in mind, and then it shaped into this poem about a person going through a war. I then turned it into a soldier who once fought and now cannot live with himself.
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