Analysis of I Don't Want to Die
I WANT to go home,
I want to go home,
I don't want to go in the trenches no more,
Where whizz-bangs and shrapnel they whistle and roar.
Take me over the sea
Where the Alleyman can't get at me.
Oh my,
I don't want to die,
I want to go home.
| Scheme | AAbbccddA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 11111 11111 11111001011 11101011001 111001 1011111 11 11111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 263 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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