Analysis of Never Came Home
Nathaniel Hackey 1983 (Madrid)
Raise your right hand
And swear in an alliance
Sign your life away
To fight evil
And everyone who dares to be defiant
For from boys to men
Their mothers cry
Proud of what has grown
What he has formed in to
A monster unknown
And in distant lands
His faith and courage are tested,
Broken down,
Grinded and twisted...
But his eyes now see
Though they call him blind
As though his fight
Was nothing more than a waste of time
So he swears
And screams in the night
Covered with tears
He's standing alone in the dark
With no one to fight
For from a man to a monster
His mother cries...no more
Afraid of what he has become
He is shunned
Left behind closed doors
So the Monster grows
Scheme | XXXXX XXAXA XBXB XXCX DCDXC XXXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 0101010 11101 1110 0101111010 11111 1101 11111 111101 01001 00101 11010110 101 1010 11111 11111 1111 110110111 111 01001 1011 11001001 11111 11011010 11011 01111101 111 10111 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 708 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 4, 5, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
Not everyone who goes to war comes back home the same way they left. We all have scars of war for those who were in combat.
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Written on January 28, 2023
Submitted by Nathaniel40 on January 29, 2023
Modified on April 25, 2023
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