Analysis of The Master Teaches
They say you know war
Sun Tzu.
Homer,
Thucydides,
Alexander
Sparta and Athens.
The Greeks
smashing their way home.
Honored sacrificial warrior's blood
at Thermopylae.
Blood also nourished
Catherine's Persia lust.
The crush at Waterloo
Punitive Ashes of Savanna,
Atlanta.
Splintered forests of Argonne, Verdun,
The Somme
And Devil Dog blood
mixed in Belleau Wood.
Ice both sides
of Leningrad walls
and bloated Marine's
red tropic lagoons.
Crematoriums Dresden
Hiroshima
Nagasaki.
Frozen Chosin; bodies
stacked like cord wood
Cratered Hanoi
Broken helicopters
litter jungle hills
The slaughter of hungry campaneros,
and their children of the land.
Raped nuns
notched on gun stocks.
Dead Balkan states still mourn
as Balkanized Arab states still bleed
from the slave whip
of ZioJew masters of perpetual chaos,
and Fallujah; phosphor-burned to the bone.
On it goes
from dawn to dusk of man.
You taught too well, Sun Tzu.
Scheme | XA BABAAC DEXX E FF XCDG AAAAXFX AG XAA AXAA XXXAX AXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 11 10 1 010 10010 01 10111 1001011 11 11010 10101 01110 100101010 010 10101110 01 01011 10011 111 1101 01001 11001 110 010 010 10110 1111 1010 10100 10101 0101101 0110101 11 1111 110111 11010111 1011 11101010010 0111101 111 111111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 928 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 6, 4, 1, 2, 4, 7, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
About this poem
Mired in the unforgiving mud of war.
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Submitted on November 13, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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