Analysis of On Veteran's Day
They hail our service
On Veteran’s Day.
For what we did
Along the way.
Then, they could all
Go out to play
And honor us on Veteran’s Day.
We take our bows
On Veteran’s Day.
As parades are held
And many pray.
But it’s okay to go out and play
While we look within
On Veteran’s Day.
They show old movies
On Veteran’s Day.
For those who all
Went out to play.
For veterans all
It’s not that way
We mostly mourn on Veteran’s Day.
We wail our loss of innocence
When we go out on Veteran’s Day.
For when it was “them or us,”
We never could get far away.
The battles we fought
Are always near when
We go out on Veteran’s Day.
“Old warriors never die,”
He said, “They only fade away.”
Another penned, “War never leaves
Those who fought." And as
The years flicker past
The war I fought lasts and lasts
To rise anew on Veteran’s Day.
When many still go out to play
Aging warriors fade away.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11001 1111 0101 1111 1111 010111001 11101 11001 10111 0101 11111101 11101 11001 11110 11001 1111 1111 11001 1111 110111001 111011100 111111001 1111111 11011101 01011 1111 11111001 1100101 11110101 01011101 11101 01101 0111101 110111001 11011111 10100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 925 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7, 9 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
This is a reflection of my service in the military during war and peace, and my desire that all warfare ends, and the celebration of warfare becomes, instead, a meditation on peace.
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Written on November 11, 2021
Submitted by DJGillert on February 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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