Analysis of The Last Traveler
The end rose up to greet him,
the last traveler undisposed
Its final words, the last he heard
—as the past and future closed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Scheme | XA AA X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0111111 011001 11010111 1010101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 162 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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