Analysis of Immortal Soldiers - Part 1
They ran on frozen ice; draping their bodies in threadbare minimum of inexpensive cloth,
Took their positions scrupulously behind incoherent lumps; aiming dead straight with their missiles.
They hardly paid attention to food; surviving on parsimonious amounts of water
compounded with intermittent meals,
Swirled their eyes rampantly in all directions; trying to track the slightest of movement; the most inconspicuous of sound.
They didn't budge an inch at the sound of bullet firing; instead retorted back
with indiscriminate gunfire of their own,
Belligerently attacking with their grenades and tanks; trying vehemently to
push back the infiltrators.
They used their fists onerously to dig furrows in the snow; sequestering
themselves from the opposite camp,
Used every trick in their armory to entice the intruders; before mercilessly
assassinating them.
They constructed their camps in the inclement cold; dexterously spreading the
heaps of canvas they had onerously carried on their shoulder,
Listened diligently to crisp voices emanating from their walkie talkies;
endeavoring to adhere to every command of their seniors as stringently as
possible.
They were quite accustomed to the obstreperous noise echoing far and distant
throughout the valley; as it was an indispensable part of their lives,
Incessantly chalked plans to capture their adversaries with surprise; without
giving them the tiniest of insinuation.
They hardly talked about their miseries; the streams of blood trickling
down their bare palms,
Instead courageously pepped up each other; envisaging the sweetness of victory; applying cold water to their wounds as an antiseptic medicine.
They audaciously struck their swords into their opponents chest; remaining
unperturbed by the tyrannical gasps of profound anguish,
Took several soldiers at a time; still remaining invincibly triumphant in the
end.
They remembered their families on infinite occasions of time; nostalgically
reviving the blissful moments they had spent back home,
However phlegmatically shrug such thoughts away; when they saw them interfering with the safety of their country.
They were unrelentingly fighting to save their nation; at prime cost of sacrificing their lives; ensuring that a majority of their population rested cozily in their homes,
I considered myself nowhere near the most obscure fractions of their shadows;
as I was dying every moment to save my cowardly life,
While they lived for centuries unprecedented even after death; as they had
deservedly earned the proud status of being 'IMMORTAL SOLDIERS'.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101101100110010101 110101000010010110111110 1101010110101010001110 01010101 111101010101101011001010011 11011110111010010101 10010010111 10101101011010001 110100 111111110010100 01101001 11001011001010010011000 01001 1010110001011100 1110111101110 1010001110100111010 0100101110001111011001 100 10101010010011001010 01010111101001111 010011110110010101 101010010010 1101011100011110 1111 010100111101010110001011011111010100 111110110101010 01100100110110 110101011010101000 1 101011001100010111 0100101011111 10111101111101010101110 101101111011111001101010010011010101011 1010111010110111 11110100101111001 1111100010010101111 01001011011001010 |
Characters | 2,542 |
Words | 385 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 58 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 213 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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