Analysis of One Percent
Only one percent took the call
And said I’ll give my all
As the thunder sounded and shots rang out
Nobody knows their pain as they stood another bout
Years went by young soldiers grew old
There was nothing left for them untold
Death was no longer in their future
Their wounds had far too many sutures
To know true freedom they had seen
It was the ability to take a life so quick and clean
Images haunt their nights far from peace
Praying for solace wishing dreams would cease
The battle rages on night after night
Standing their ground back to the fight
Where’s that boy that grew to be a man
Again he’s off to fight in foreign land
His families lost, his soul is gone
Yet he goes to right the wrong
To know life is to know death
Please burry me at the deepest depth
There in that hole will lay the tortures
My soul free to soar above the cultures
Looking down on a world of peace
Maybe here I’ll find release
Scheme | AA BB CC XD EE FF GG XX XX XX DD FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101101 011111 1010100111 11111110101 11111011 111011101 111100110 111111010 11110111 110010011011101 100111111 1011010111 0101011101 10111101 111111101 0111110101 110011111 1111101 1111111 110110101 101111010 1111101010 10110111 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 941 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Soldiers lost because of war
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