Analysis of First And Last
The first casualty of war…
truth
The last casualty of war…
death
Truth fighting death,
beginning to end
Questions unanswered
—gravestones contend
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
| Scheme | AX AB BC XC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01100011 1 01100011 1 1101 01011 1010 101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 182 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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