Analysis of The Soldiers at Lauro
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
Young are our dead
Like babies they lie
The wombs they blest once
Not healed dry
And yet - too soon
Into each space
A cold earth falls
On colder face.
Quite still they lie
These fresh-cut reeds
Clutched in earth
Like winter seeds
But they will not bloom
When called by spring
To burst with leaf
And blossoming
They sleep on
In silent dust
As crosses rot
And helmets rust.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEBGHGIJKJLMNM |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 11101 11011 01111 111 0111 0111 0111 1101 1111 1111 101 1101 11111 1111 1111 0100 111 0101 1101 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 352 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 297 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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