Analysis of Ellipse #78(…candy bar)
Joe Guillotin 1738 ( Saintes) – 1814 ( Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris)
Saw a kid in a gas mask today
Five years old- maybe four
Stole a Hershey bar from the remains
of a burnt down store.
Riot gear and hopscotch
Slingshots and hand grenades.
Well, that kid- with that precious chocolate in hand
He found a soldier, lying on the ground
And there, he kneeled down
The soldier had a gut shot wound
And bits of shrapnel in his small intestine
In his hand,
a photograph of his wife he rubbed
with a bloody thumb.
From the waist down, he began to grow numb
And that kid in that gas mask
He looked down with a bit of pity
On the soldier with the seeping wound
and soon to be widowed wife.
He took PITY on that soldier's
poor, unfortunate life.
He took that candy bar from his back pocket,
And he GAVE that dying soldier his chocolate.
That soldier- he had a tear in his eye..
For that one gracious deed before he would die.
He looked up in the gas mask glass,
and saw his reflection!
He smiled wide,
and with sincere, yet trembling inflection
said, ‘Thanks kid.'
And that kid, he saw that smile-
and he pondered on it for awhile.
'That's ok. I'm going to steal a TV now instead'
Scheme | XAXA XX BCXCDBXEE XXCFXF GGHH XDXDX II X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001101 111101 101011001 10111 10101 10101 11111101001 1101010101 01111 01010111 01110011010 011 01011111 10101 1011101111 0110111 111101110 101010101 0111101 11101110 101001 11110111110 01111010110 1101101011 11110101111 11100111 011010 111 01011100010 111 0111111 011011101 11111011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,089 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 9, 6, 4, 5, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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