Analysis of Medieval Eyes



I breathe hard, wiping my face clean of sweat and blood
I set the point of my sword to the earth, ready by my hand
Looking about the field I see only the dead and the dying
Different countries – same ideals
I feel the tears roll down my cheeks as I begin to see my friends lying still
Life blood feeding the grass, soaked past saturation
Smoke and fire dot the field – showing the scavengers
Moving from body to body taking from the dead.
This war is far from over and only the dead see the end of it.
With a weary sigh I take up my sword, clean it, and set it in the scabbard
My feet have gotten heavy, even more so as I leave for home


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Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 641
Words 133
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 496
Words per stanza (avg) 131

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A warrior's stoicism

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Submitted by Themadpoet1969 on December 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jerry Cassidy

As old as the earth, and as young as the stars..A warrior poet of wit and wisdom, heavily spiced with sarcasm at times. more…

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