Carpe Diem Soldier Edit 1 Thanks to all.

[Brownlie]

I'm assuming this is accentual verse as it holds to no meter, but alternates lines between 4 and 3 accents per line. Very much like Ballad Meter, except it is not in iambs.


"and it's twenty days off the Horse" -->"it's twenty days off of the Horse"

Only cap the beginning of a line if preceded by a period. (Makes the reading easier.)

A number of lines seem to indicate a time not of the present. Such as the following appear to relate to the Knights Templar and others of the middle ages during the Crusades:

"We quaffed our chuck with rosy cheeks,
and marched to Palestine."

So the first three stanzas seem to fall into earlier times and are not about the US military, then the last two definitely are of modern times and the last about the US military.

The question for me is what do these groups (however many there are) have in common. Maybe drugs, first nicotine, the pot. Are they connected because they all are supposed to be Christians?

I think who you are talking about, and how they connect, as it is obvious you are condemning them, but I really have little idea who "they" are.


Dale

Well, I think the way I've written this is confusing. This is supposed to be about drug use in the military. The nicotine off the Horse (which is slang for heroin) is supposed to be a brief period in recovery. I used Mellow David to refer to the military which is called David in the battle hymn of the republic. My idea was that the country, and the military by extension, is the paradoxical image of an older David, but I suppose that's confusing. Thanks for commenting.