Analysis of Wounded Soldier
A wounded soldier,
Casts a forlorn shadow,
Alone in a meadow,
Not far from Aberdeen.
His company long gone,
Cut down, one by one,
In a hailstorm of artillery.
He attempts one more stride,
Mustering all of his pride,
Before falling ungracefully.
He looks below,
And to all of his woe,
He has little below his knee.
It's plain to see,
For you and for me,
Another victim
Of war misery.
Scheme | XAAX XXB CCX AAB BBXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010 10011 01001 11110 110011 11111 00110100 101111 1001111 01101 1101 011111 11100111 1111 11011 01010 11100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 366 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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