Analysis of A Turkish Mother To The Kaiser (WW1)



How many sons
  have we lost

How many demons
  have we found

How many graves
  must we dig

To make the ‘Fatherland’
  proud

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)


Scheme AX AX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 111 11010 111 1101 111 11010 1 010010010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 162
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 12, 2019

Modified on April 21, 2023

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Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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