Analysis of July 1st 2007, Visit To The Somme
A green, open, swollen sea of fields,
Lies peacefully under summer sun.
A turf mask on a tortured face.
Trees and bushes huddle in lonely fear,
Cloaking scars of ordnance past.
Small piles of failed darkness await collection
On the long through road to Amiens.
Shrines to heroes and the unnamed abound
Hoping to appease nurtures still shocked breast.
And in the autumn with the poppy past its bloom
We make a show of remembering
What cold hands could vindicate again.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010111 110010101 01110101 1010100101 1011101 11111001010 1011111 1110000101 1010110111 000101010111 110110100 111110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 377 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on April 25, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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