Analysis of Vietnam
Some came home…
but never came back
Some came back…
but never came home
Caught between
forever
And what forever
—had disowned
(Vietnam Veterans Memorial: March, 2020)
| Scheme | AB BA XC CX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 11011 111 11011 101 010 01010 101 0110001001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 164 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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