Analysis of The Last Post
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
The bugler sent a call of high romance—
“Lights out! Lights out!” to the deserted square.
On the thin brazen notes he threw a prayer,
“God, if it’s this for me next time in France…
O spare the phantom bugle as I lie
Dead in the gas and smoke and roar of guns,
Dead in a row with the other broken ones
Lying so stiff and still under the sky,
Jolly young Fusiliers too good to die.”
Scheme | ABBACDDCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011101 1111100101 1011011101 1111111101 1101010111 1001010111 10011010101 1011011001 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 401 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 289 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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