Analysis of Memories of a Military Funeral
We comrades had our part to play
That loathsome, sick, depressing day.
Through pouring rain and skies of grey
We said goodbye.
We shuffled down that teary aisle,
Each step we took, more like a mile.
The Padre, head bowed all the while,
Then blessed us all.
And stopping at the chosen spot
We turned about and braced his cot,
Then lay him down as soft as not
To wake the dead.
A silver bugle played its part,
The last post cut through every heart,
As each man felt that burning dart,
That was his loss.
We gathered round his final bed,
Each wishing Bill was here, instead
Of laying in this box, quite dead
And then we wept.
Scheme | AAAX BBBX CCCD EEEX DDDX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 11110111 11010101 11010111 111 11011101 11111101 0111101 1111 01010101 11010111 11111111 1101 01010111 011111001 11111101 1111 11011101 11011101 11001111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on April 01, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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