Analysis of Toy Soldier



He moves and jumps to his own beat,
moving over hills and under mounds.
He stands fierce and fearless
in the many faces of danger.
Flying through the air,
he hits the ground with a thud.
The toy soldier lies awaiting
his next mission.


Scheme ABCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111 101010101 111010 001010110 10101 1101101 01101010 1110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 227
Words 44
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 185
Words per stanza (avg) 44
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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