Analysis of Our Soldier Boy
Written as a tribute to my brother, W. M. Strang, with the Engineers.
He said, "I'm Daddy's soldier boy,"
When he was five years old;
And then went out and built snow forts,
Although the day was cold.
The snowballs were his hand grenades,
A stick his bayonette;
And with a home-made wooden gun
The foe he bravely met.
In five more years he joined the "scouts"
And hiked across the hills;
He learned to wear a khaki suit,
And do military drills.
And so the years passed swiftly on,
And now he is a man;
He's in the trenches over there,
Fighting for Uncle Sam.
I know he'll make the Huns regret
They started this big fight,
For he knows the cause he's fighting for
Is liberty and right.
Scheme | X XAXA XAXB XCXC XXXX BDXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101011101001110101 11110101 111111 01110111 10111 0101101 0111 01011101 011101 01111101 010101 11110101 011001 01011101 011101 10010101 101101 11110101 110111 111011101 110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 682 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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