Analysis of Doomed

Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)



They rush ahead

They only seal the fates
Of many nations.

Hoping to complete
The super weapon

They are hoping
Will reverse

The course
Of the same war

Over Countless
Generations…

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Scheme X XA XX XX XX XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 110101 11010 10101 01010 1110 101 01 1011 1010 010 101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 239
Words 51
Sentences 2
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 23
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Written on September 10, 2006

Submitted by Charles2 on October 08, 2023

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