Analysis of Twilight
Ernst Toller 1893 (Samotschin, Posen) – 1939 (New York City)
In early evening the cell flares up.
Thin shadows slide down the gray walls.
He who cries out in mutiny exhausts into a dream.
The brown stillness sweeps over like a gentle wave.
And often a frosted light fills the choked room.
Figures beckon you to the spiritless circle
where the dance of the heavy coats dissolves into silence,
where dawn breaks into a ringing of bells.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010100111 1111011 11110100010101 011011010101 01001011011 1010110110 10110101010110 1110101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 374 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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