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
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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Submitted by Brokenoifvet on May 22, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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John Lowe

I rode as a bullrider on the pro rodeo circut for several years.I also was deployed to Iraq four times during OIF and was injured 3 times.My poems come from the heart break of being apart and the love of what I do and have done. more…

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