Analysis of Sunset Walk



On tonight’s unsteady sunset walk
The crows cawed,The crickets chirped,  and even the blue birds were screaming at me to fall and die.

To provide a bigger meal than the roadkill rabbit at the end of the drive. .


Scheme XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011 011101010011010111101 101010110110101101
Characters 220
Words 45
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 55
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

Since my stroke, walking has become a new daily challenge-- this poem was a response to one night's sunset walk

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Written on May 22, 1951

Submitted by ericb51 on January 13, 2022

Modified on April 23, 2023

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Eric Barr

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