Analysis of Footprints throughout time
Tramp, tramp, tramp. We watch them going
and throughout time hear their voices flowing.
See the phantom footprints through the mist.
Remember those who are so dearly missed.
We follow their footprints through war torn times
midst the muddy trenches in foreign climes.
Amongst toil and danger as they walk on,
through hail of bullets and the blast of bomb.
We see the footprints in the steep trench wall
ploughing on although so many others fall.
With grim determination taking one step more
unstopped by the awful turmoil of war,
Onward and upwards through conflict and strife,
willing to make that ultimate sacrifice.
Through the valley of death their footprints went.
So that we might live, their lives they spent.
So many footprints trod those war torn ways!
So few returned to see these better days!
And so with these footprints we pave the way.
Remembering those not with us today.
This poem was written to commemorate Remembrance Day when we placed cut-outs of footprints throughout Tilehurst.
Scheme | AABB CCXX DDEE XXFF GGHH B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111110 0011111010 10101101 0101111101 110111111 1010100101 0110101111 1111000111 110100111 111110101 11001010111 11010111 1001011001 1011110010 101011111 111111111 110111111 1101111101 011111101 0100111101 110110101001011111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 979 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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