Analysis of To All The Soldiers
To all of our soldiers who've gone off to war
To the ones fighting now and the ones from before
You never have met me but I need you to know
you helped free my family a long time ago
They lived under Stalin, a madman at best
When Hitler's men came and took everyone West
Into terrible prisons, thousands were swept
None from here came to help them, or know how they wept
My mother was young, just a girl, and so small
Her parents and brother, those men took them all
In this parlor of Hell they stayed prisoners for years
Despairing and hopeless they shed oceans of tears
But one day word came that Americans were near
It was true, soldiers freed them, that's how I was born here
There's more to their story but what I must say
Is I honor our soldiers who serve every day
You set aside your lives and hold back your fear
You leave precious families and all you hold dear
To help total strangers you never will know
God bless you for your help that time long ago
So I thank all you soldiers who continue today
Your gift for so many, we can never repay
Just know we remember, we're from so many nations
You're our heros, I thank-you
For all generations
Many Many Thanks
Ellen Eaton
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101001111 101101001101 110111111111 111110001101 1110100111 1101101101 01100101001 111111111111 11011101011 01001011111 0110111110011 010010111011 111111010001 1111011111111 11111011111 11101010111001 11011101111 111010001111 11101011011 11111111101 1111110101001 111110111001 1110101111010 11010111 11010 10101 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,153 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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