Analysis of His Duty
Beginning the day, shaking off the cold.
Wishing dearly for someone to hold.
Letters she writes faithfully every day.
Always hoping, never forgetting to pray.
Her love left and now has gone off to war.
Striving every day to get by, they are so poor.
He makes extra money being overseas.
But, it is still not enough to cover their needs.
Then, one sorrowful day she receives a dreadful call.
With weakened knees, to the ground she does fall.
A sobbing plea she makes to the Chaplin at the door.
Oh, please don't say my love will come home no more.
For the love of Country he had stood tall.
Her love had done his duty and given his all.
Scheme | AABB CXXX DDCC DD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100110101 10101111 10111001001 1101001011 0110111111 1010011111111 11101010101 111110111011 1110011010101 1101101111 0101111010101 11111111111 1011101111 011111001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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