Analysis of Sentry
Ernst Toller 1893 (Samotschin, Posen) – 1939 (New York City)
Starry sky.
To restrain the beast
my rifle glows,
to fix the black barrel
to the milky moon.
The cry of the Snowy Owl.
A baby whimpers in the village.
The bullet,
treacherous wolf,
bursts into the sleeping house.
The night smells of lime-tree blossoms.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 10101 1101 110110 10101 0110101 01010010 010 1001 1010101 01111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 250 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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