Analysis of Barren Hill
The fire’s gone out
in the last wooden hut
Fresh snow has been falling,
cold hunger abuts
The Red Coats emboldened
in far Germantown
The wind carries stillness,
with death all around
A General stands watch
on the farthest of hills
His heart never waivers,
his anger instills
The firewood gone
but the embers still burn
O’er forests and rivers,
to Paris in turn
The Schuylkill runs quiet,
Lenape scouts have returned
“Our enemy grows fat, Sir,
in taverns that burn”
The outcome awaiting,
its body count high
Where cabins though frozen
—the stars and stripes fly
(Valley Forge: November, 2020)
Scheme | XABX XXXX XCDC XEDE AXFE BGXG F |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (28%) |
Metre | 01011 001101 111110 11001 011010 0110 011010 11101 010011 101011 111010 11001 0101 101011 110010 11001 01110 11101 10100111 01011 01010 11011 110110 01011 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 577 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 20, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on November 20, 2020
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