Analysis of A Soldiers Prayer
The Greatest Love 1976 (Indiana)
We are solders who are at war,
As for enemies we have no more.
For our freedom and our rights,
We fight all day and all night.
Though it's hard to stay away,
For our families, we do pray.
| Scheme | AABCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 111001111 110100101 1111011 1111101 110100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 186 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Written on September 23, 2021
Submitted by applehead0421511010 on September 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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