Analysis of To the Trench
Ernst Toller 1893 (Samotschin, Posen) – 1939 (New York City)
Through shell-holes,
puddles of mud,
they trudge.
Over frozen
men in foxholes
they stumble.
Rats dart whistling across the distances.
Dead fingers rain down
& tap on rotting doors.
Signal-rockets,
corpse-lanterns…
To the ditch, to the ditch.
Scheme | AXXXAX XXXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1011 11 1010 101 110 1110010100 11011 11101 1010 110 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 242 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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