Analysis of Soldier
Redemption comes and goes for the broken,
A life we lived of wounds unspoken.
We’ve spilled our blood for another man’s glory.
Now we live to tell our story.
In the end what was it for?
We gave ourselves for another man’s war.
The walls we built stood strong for all.
But it was we who would come to take the fall.
They sang their songs of how we saved them,
While others cried by how we graved them.
There is no return from the shedding of life,
Only the pain of torment and strife.
We’ve died each time we’ve killed another,
Shoulder to shoulder with our brother.
We’ve fallen back to remain unseen.
We’ve lost ourselves to the war machine.
If in your hearts you can forgive us,
For the life we’ve chosen so seek to unlive us.
For the burden we bear is heavy at hand.
For too is the constant of death’s demand.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0101011010 011111010 111011010110 111111010 0011111 11001101011 01111111 11111111101 111111111 110111111 11101101011 10011101 111111010 1011011010 110110101 1100110101 101111011 10111011111 10101111011 1110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 834 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
About this poem
War and the brave souls who sacrificed for our freedom. Thank you to all who serve or have served. You have my gratitude, love and respect.
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Written on November 30, 2022
Submitted by Symmetry60 on December 01, 2022
Modified by Symmetry60 on December 28, 2023
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