Analysis of War
Severed madness,
the wound bleeds again
The stitches once broke,
just a stain at the end
A sutured indemnity,
promising nothing but pain
All flesh now in enmity,
—bugles call out your name
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | XX XX AX AX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 01101 01011 101101 0100100 1001011 1110100 101111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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