Analysis of War Grave

August Stramm 1874 (Münster) – 1915 (Kobryn)



Staffs flehen cross arms
Writing zagt pale unknown
Flowers impudent
Dust shyly.
Flare
Water
Glast
Forgotten.


Scheme ABCDEFCG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 101101 101 110 1 10 1 010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 109
Words 18
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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August Stramm

August Stramm was a German poet and playwright who is considered one of the first of the expressionists. more…

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