Analysis of Les Grands Mutiles
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
I saw three wounded of the war:
And the first had lost his eyes;
And the second went on wheels and had
No legs below the thighs;
And the face of the third was featureless,
And his mouth ran cornerwise.
So I made a rhyme about each one,
And this is how my fancies run.
Scheme | ABCBDBEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 0011111 001011101 110101 0011011100 01111 111010111 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 268 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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