Analysis of Vietnam revisted
When I was young
I played war often
And at lunch mother invited
The dead and dying
On both sides home
For soup and sandwiches
When I was older I played for keeps
And often ate
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 11110 01110010 01010 1111 110100 111101111 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 176 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on September 28, 2015
Modified on April 17, 2023
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