Analysis of Welcome Home
Theresa Sue Kennison Baker 1960 (Louisiana)
Welcome Home
By Theresa Sue Kennison Baker
His face had a marble pallor,
He thought he was doing right,
No one stole his valor,
He left it in the fight.
His brothers made it home
But they weren't welcome there
The country they did roam,
The people they did stare.
They wiped the sweat from their brows
They wiped the spit from their faces,
They moved past the crowds,
Who claimed they fell from their graces.
They were sprayed with an agent,
Designed to kill vegetation,
It made the servicemen sick,
It deformed an entire nation.
They made it through the napalm,
They made it through the bombs,
They only try to stay calm,
When they flashed back to Nam.
Cancer took them in the end,
The earth no more to roam,
Jesus said, I'll take you in,
You made it, Welcome Home!
| Scheme | AB BCBC ADAD XXXX XEXE FXFX XAXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 1010110010 1110101 1111101 111110 111001 110111 1110101 010111 010111 1101111 11011110 11101 11111110 1011110 0111010 1101001 101101010 1111010 111101 1101111 111111 1011001 011111 1011110 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 743 |
| Words | 143 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
For my late husband Perry F. Baker and my brother, David Kennison Who both served in Vietnam and both ultimately died due to Agent Orange exposure.
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Written on July 19, 2015
Submitted by tskbaker on October 20, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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