Analysis of Abandoned soldiers
Rows of white crosses
headstones without names
silent winds without
in the autumn of our day
where memories fade away
exhausted used up thrown away
they come home
Against the city streets of angel stares
unnoticed like stone now that their work is done
left wayside to passer bys on the curbs of despair
restitutions of resolutions
of imaginative fines
are the resolutions for tomorrow
Turn their eyes past shadows cast
demons of the mind do quench their wanted souls
to bitter tears left dry
lost to the oblivion of pedestrians
they come home
Parades no more but once a year
ragged arms legs and mind
abandoned on this wanted shore
Those who gave fought and died
through dreams of fear from sleep no more
terror in light of day
Sounds of guns recur through
depths they cannot leap
from blackness of their abyss
the martyred soul do bare
Expendable wasting lives
tormented phantoms of the mind
whose eyes speak through the soul
that cannot speak
On the stage of terror
dreams of horror rescind
to the cold sidewalks
they come home
Deserts of the city and silent to the wind
nightmares undone
healing sleep which life distills
where leaves of grass are tilled
silent coffins gleam amidst the poppy streams
they come home
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 1011 10101 00101101 1100101 01011101 111 0101011101 01011111111 111101101101 11010 1010001 10010101 111111 10101111101 110111 110010010100 111 01111101 101101 01011101 111101 11111111 100111 111011 11101 1101101 010111 0100101 1010101 111101 1101 101110 111001 1011 111 101010010101 101 1011101 111111 10101010101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,252 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 5, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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