Analysis of Though Death Be Not Imminent....
The dreams of a soldier
lay dead on the ground
A warrior’s spirit
his enemy found
The battle once over
a new war to find
Though death be not imminent
—all sleep to remind
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)
Scheme | AB XB AC XC A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010 11101 010010 11001 010110 01111 1111100 11101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 217 |
Words | 38 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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