Analysis of Drafted
Edgar Albert Guest 1881 (Birmingham) – 1959 (Detroit, Michigan)
The biggest moment in our lives was that when first he cried,
From that day unto this, for him, we've struggled side by side.
We can recount his daily deeds, and backwards we can look,
And proudly live again the time when first a step he took.
I see him trudging off to school, his mother at his side,
And when she left him there alone she hurried home and cried.
And then the sturdy chap of eight that was, I proudly see,
Who packed a little grip and took a fishing trip with me.
Among the lists of boys to go his name has now appeared;
To us has come the sacrifice that mothers all have feared;
And though we dread the parting hour when he shall march away,
We love him and the Flag too much to ask of him to stay.
His baby ways shall march with him, and every joy we've had,
Somewhere in France some day shall be a little brown-eyed lad;
A toddler and a child at school, the chum that once I knew
Shall wear our country's uniform, for they've been drafted, too.
Scheme | AABB AACC DDEE FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010100101111111 11110111110111 11011101010111 01010101110111 11110111110111 01111101110101 01010111111101 11010101010111 01011111111101 1111010110111 011101010111101 11100111111111 110111110100111 1011111010111 01000111011111 11101010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 957 |
Words | 192 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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