Analysis of World War 1
The rain stopped
the sun was gone
Mercy was in
short supply
Smoke hung over
the battlefield
A bugler in the mud
with his cry
Bodies were being
carted off
New songs were written
to the dead
Just another day in
World War 1
That started and ended
in dread
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2014)
| Scheme | XX AB CX DB XX XE AX DE C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011 0111 1010 101 1110 010 01001 111 10010 101 11010 101 101010 11 110010 01 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 301 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 26 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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