Analysis of The Battle
Joel Hegeman 1977 (Jacksonville, FL)
There once was a battle between two men,
they were the best at their craft or so it was said.
One man was big and stood on flat ground,
the other a little smaller, but he was up on a mound.
The man on the ground looked up and said,
“There’s no way I can miss, consider yourself dead.”
The man on the mound chuckled and laughed,
as he hurled his weapon, by the man it passed.
The man on the mound hurled another by the man’s fists,
the man on the ground began to get pissed.
The man on the mound was two moves ahead,
with just one more move he could drop the other man dead.
He hurled his weapon again, this time with a twist,
the man on the ground took a huge swing and missed.
The man on the mound began to smile with glee,
he knew he had won, as he heard a voice yell, “Strike three”
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110100111 100111111111 111101111 010010101111101 011011101 111111010011 011011001 11111010111 0110110101011 0110101111 0110111101 1111111101011 111100111101 01101101101 01101011111 1111111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 782 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 597 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 162 |
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Submitted on April 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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