Analysis of Boxes
man-size
silver boxes
stacked 3 high
on lift truck forks
in mechanical parade
all night long,
as planes close doors
and scream away
to runway queue
for their turn
to break the bond
of tire and pock-marked
landing strip
as blue-flamed engines burn.
Rise, dark angels…
Take them home to mom.
| Scheme | XX XX X X XX X A XXX A X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 1010 11 1111 0010001 111 1111 0101 111 111 1101 110011 101 111101 1110 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 372 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 11 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 21 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Danang Air Base 1967
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