Analysis of Another Purple Heart

Regina Elliott 1957 (Queens, NY)

Haiku
the soldiers' wounds of the psyche....that
bleeds another sacrifice

Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 0101101 101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 67
Words 10
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 9

About this poem

This monoku is about soldier's PTSD from war.

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Written on March 17, 2023

Submitted by on March 17, 2023

Modified on April 18, 2023

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Regina Elliott

Regina Elliott is sixty-five and resides in North Carolina. She was a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee. more…

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