Analysis of The Subsequent Dawn
Bugles
Calling horses
Some missing riders
The enemy dead beyond
A five hour victory march
In the morning the burials commence
The following day all men to rest
And with the subsequent dawn—to start again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
| Scheme | XXXXXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 1010 11010 0100101 01101001 0010010001 010011111 01010011101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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