Analysis of ( a veterans remembrance )

JESUS BETANCOURT 1955 (New York)



eyes glaze with dry tears
returns home with limbs missing
flags fly at half mast


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11111 0111110 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 78
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 15

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Veterans Day tribute

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Written on October 07, 2021

Submitted by jb809499 on November 07, 2021

Modified on April 08, 2023

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