Analysis of Viet Nam
The pungent smell of burning flesh as bodies lay unwanted; amidst a pool of crimson mud, emotions to be taunted.
How zealously they stood in line; for government and kin. How in the end we shut our eyes and wouldn’t let them in.
In school we sat, yet were not taught the reason for it all. Why the neighbor left to fight a war based on politics, not call.
And now we say we’re sorry though for long the seas were calm. I’ll never really understand that war called Viet Nam.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111011101010010111010101110 1100110111000110011110101110 01111011010111101011101111011 011101011101011101001111011 |
| Characters | 479 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 92 |
| Words per line (avg) | 24 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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