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
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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Written on December 15, 2014

Submitted by imhunting on December 12, 2023

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Joshua Paullus

Born and raised in rural Oregon and joined the military at 18. Served 30 years in the infantry and deployed to Iraq in 2004-2005 again in 2009-2010 and then to Afghanistan in 2014-2015. I have a beautiful wife and four great children. I've always loved reading and writing poetry, and then it eventually became a coping mechanism for me as I grew older. more…

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