Analysis of Missing
In the darkness, pebbles skitter and tink from a precipice.
Warnings to two soldiers,
city boys, on leave,
who relax around a crackling campfire, unaware.
Imbibing, conversing of drill sergeants and reminiscing of home.
Forensic evidence at the scene: plate-size paw prints on the ground at each young sentinel's sleeping bag. Lines in dirt lead into emptiness and bottles litter the ground
while white smoke lingers.
Scheme | XAXX X XA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101010110100 101110 10111 101010101001 10101110001011 010100101111110111111011011011000101001 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 423 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
Flash fiction inspired and parts of the poem were inspired by the true stories of a US soldier.
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Written on June 09, 2022
Submitted by dj_w on June 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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