Analysis of Sock It To 'Em
"A Canadian lieutenant writes his mother from the front that what he most needs for the winter is good warm socks." - Press Despatch.
Yes, Wilhelm, sure you'll get it,
The storm is o'er your head;
It is bursting in the trenches
And you're just as good as dead.
You put your foot on Belgium
And defied your fate and doom,
And now the whole world hates you
And the cry is "Sock it to 'em!"
True, your Taubchens still are sailing,
But your battleships are not;
They are coop'd up in a corner
Save the submerg'd ones that fought.
You are saving time and fuel,
But you're sad and filled with gloom,
For the very winds are whispering
"Blow hard and sock it to 'em."
You have sought more spacious realm
In the free and genial sun:
Has your sceptre widened any
With the salvo of each gun?
Your "World-Power" seems to narrow,
And your hope lies in a tomb,
While dark Fate weaves your chaplet
And whispers "Sock it to 'em!"
For Theodore Botrel.
Scheme | X ABXBXCXD EXXXFCED XGXGXCAD F |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001000101110101111111010111111 111111 0111011 11100010 0111111 1111110 0011101 0101111 00111111 1111110 111011 11110010 1001111 11101010 1110111 101011100 1101111 1111101 0010101 11101010 1010111 11101110 0111001 111111 0101111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 926 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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