Analysis of Casualty
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
Casualties at dawn,
Casualties at dusk,
I bear witness
To the casualties
Of love's war.
In my world,
You are my only love,
But in yours,
I am merely
A nameless casualty.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHII |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 100011 100011 1110 101000 111 011 111101 101 1110 0101000 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 174 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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