Analysis of Battlefield
August Stramm 1874 (Münster) – 1915 (Kobryn)
Tender sods fallen asleep at their iron
Blood fluffing outpost scum
Rusted crusts
Slimy flesh skinned
Sucking scores the dessicated.
Baby-faced
Killerkillers
Win king
| Scheme | ABCDDECF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110011110 1111 101 1011 10101 101 1 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 168 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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