Analysis of Warrior
The pounding,
the grinding,
the machines
moving
forward
darkness and cold,
heat and light,
bad weather,
good weather,
it all is alike,
shadows are enemies,
friends are gone,
the smell of blood,
cloying and dusty,
wounds, death, sorrow,
replace all that is good,
what is left is one man,
one warrior,
to stand and fight,
one warrior,
to hold the flag,
to bring peace and justice,
to lead the way,
to freedom,
and freedom is led by one,
Warrior.
| Scheme | aabacdeffghijklmnFeFopqrsf |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010 010 001 10 10 1001 101 110 110 11101 11100 111 0111 10010 1110 11111 111111 1100 1101 1100 1101 111010 1101 110 0101111 100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 450 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 26 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 340 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
About this poem
It is about my father and what I imagine he went through in the Vietnam War and the loneliness he must have felt. He died recently and that made me think of so many of the stories he used to tell me, many of when he was in Vietnam.
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