Analysis of A Tale of War




This is a tale.
A tale of a father who left for the war.
To put the flag during victory
After mindless killing.
Slaughter their daughters,
And their women for mating.
After bomb and the sick they brought,
No matter how gruesome it all got.
No matter how horrible it all looked,
They were heroes in the public’s books.
After they ripped the hope out of innocent eyes,
Kids now duck hearing planes flying by.
And here am I just telling the tale,
What good am I if not distorted.
They will lie and lie about the battles they faced,
We still say thank you as a smirk wipes their face.


Scheme ABCDEDFGHIJKALMN
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 01101011101 110110100 101010 10110 0110110 10100111 110110111 1101100111 101000101 101101111001 111101101 011111001 111111010 111010101011 11111101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 584
Words 127
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 454
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Written on January 08, 2022

Submitted by gabrielcaputo209 on January 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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