Analysis of The Last Setting Sun
He defeated his family…
this battle was won
The war still in doubt,
a General shunned
The casualties lingered,
fatalities mount
Old reasons to fester,
in spite of the count
His Grandmother’s death,
the last coup de gras
The love of his life,
he held her till gone
But after her funeral,
his troops on the run
Tents folded and burned
—the last setting sun
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)
| Scheme | AB XX XC XC XX XX XB XB A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101100 11011 01101 01001 0100010 01001 110110 01101 1101 01111 01111 11011 1100100 11101 11001 01101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 385 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 16, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on January 16, 2020
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