Analysis of And, the Last Day Being Come
Trumbull Stickney 1874 (Geneva) – 1904
And, the last day being come, Man stood alone
Ere sunrise on the world's dismantled verge,
Awaiting how from everywhere should urge
The Coming of the Lord. And, behold, none
Did come, -- but indistinct from every realm
Of earth and air and water, growing more
And louder, shriller, heavier, a roar
Up the dun atmosphere did overwhelm
His ears; and as he looked affrighted round
Every manner of beast innumerable
All thro' the shadows crying grew, until
The wailing was like grass upon the ground.
Asudden then within his human side
Their anguish, since the goad he wielded first,
And, since he gave them not to drink, their thirst,
Darted compressed and vital. -- As he died,
Low in the East now lighting gorgeously
He saw the last sea-serpent iris-mailed
Which, with a spear transfixèd, yet availed
To pluck the sun down into the dead sea.
Scheme | XAAX BCCB DEXD FGGF EHHX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 00111011101 111010101 010111011 0101010011 11100111001 1101010101 010110001 10110101 11011111 100101101000 110110101 0101110101 11011101 1101011101 0111111111 1001010111 10011101 1101110101 1101011101 1101101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 836 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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