Analysis of Factory Smokestacks At Dawn
Ernst Toller 1893 (Samotschin, Posen) – 1939 (New York City)
They chisel their force into the dawning sky.
They forge their steeled selves on the precipice.
They split through the fog like axes
so that each breath shatters around them.
Morning announces itself with purple laughter.
The sky floods deep blue.
They keep watch,
barbed and shaven and grey,
naked there and as lost
in the ether. God is born.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011010101 1111110100 11101110 111110011 100100111010 01111 111 101001 101011 0010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 342 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 275 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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