Analysis of I'm Out of the Army Now
Franklin P. Adams 1881 (Chicago, Illinois) – 1960 (New York City, New York)
When first I doffed my olive drab,
I thought, delightfully though mutely,
"Henceforth I shall have pleasure ab-
Solutely."
Dull with the drudgery of war,
Sick of the name of fighting,
I yearned, I thought, for something more
Exciting.
The rainbow be my guide, quoth I;
My suit shall be a brave and proud one
Gay-hued my socks; and oh, my tie
A loud one.
For me the theater and the dance;
Primrose the path I would be wending;
For me the roses of romance
Unending.
Those were my inner thoughts that day
(And those of many another million)
When once again I should be a
Civilian.
I would not miss the o.d.;
(Monotony I didn't much like)
I would not miss the reveille,
And such the like.
I don't . . . And do I now enjoy
My walks along the primrose way so?
Is civil life the life? Oh, boy,
I'll say so.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GDGD HFXF HIBI JKJK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111101 11010011 11111101 1 11010011 1101110 11111101 010 0111111 111101011 11110111 011 110100001 10111110 11010101 010 10110111 0111001010 11011110 010 111101 010011011 111101 0101 11011101 11010111 11010111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 801 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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