Analysis of tommy



On what corner of a foreign field,
did England die?
Only to have angels cry upon blood
stained glory.
Tommies full of furious melancholy,
sang over the top through innocent
voices .
So in hellish fury,
it pierced through the old man's lies.
In thick,foul,earth the west fell upon
the reaper's knife.And on beggar's knee,
Tommy cried out invisible to the'Heart's
and Mind's'of loved ones strayed faraway
in some patriotic glory.
Purged fear of devils that lie in state,
endless in the buried youth of infancy.
Killed glory,the tears of England blood-thick,
lost in the heart of an Englishman.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111010101 1101 1011101011 110 111100100 110011100 10 101010 1110111 0101101 011111 1011010011 0111111101 0101010 111101101 10001011100 11111011 100111100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 604
Words 119
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 468
Words per stanza (avg) 99

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looking into the eyes of a first world 1 soldier.

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Written on November 10, 2008

Submitted by charlief132 on January 16, 2024

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