Analysis of In The Arms of A Medic
May 2012
There in the sand of the desert
And the heat of the mid day sun
Lay a young English soldier
Crying out for the arms of his mum
His mates were all around him
Spraying out covering fire
Whilst a medic lay beside him
Sheltered by a landrovers tyre
He was known to his mates as bully
For he was heavy and six foot tall
But to those at home he was baby
For his mum there was no other at all
The medic did all that he could there
He patched up the young brave man
As they lifted him onto a stretchers
He cried out to the Taliban
I may lay here dying and wounded
But be sure that you run and hide
For when I return from heaven
I'll be there at my buddies side
I thought I'd a lifetime of soldiering
Fighting battles with all of my mates
But I don't mind where I am going
As long as it's heavens gold gates
His mates they laid down more cover
Whilst the Taliban tried to reply
And In the arms of the army medic
The young soldier smiled as he died
Scheme | XXABX CBCX DEDE XFXF XGAG HIHI BXXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 10011010 00110111 1011010 101101111 1101011 10110010 10101011 101011 111111110 111100111 111111110 1111111011 010111111 1110111 1110110010 1111010 111110010 11111101 11101110 11111101 111011100 101011111 111111110 11111011 11111110 10101101 0001101010 01101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 920 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on December 11, 2015
Modified on March 14, 2023
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