Analysis of Hemingway. Terse.
They called him terse
With his words.
Knowing not to go on
Using atmosphere, heroes.
Not needing elaboration.
Red Cross Corps in War.
(Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Service)
Africa for big game prizes.
Bullfight butchery, Bravo.
Stamina in the long catch
Of Gulf Stream marlin.
Spanish Civil War and
A love desperately needed
Yes Ernest was terse
Not going on after
He was finished.
A suicide at age 62.
Was he really through?
| Scheme | A X X X B X X X X X B X X A X X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 111 101111 101010 1100010 11101 10110101010 10011110 110010 1000011 11110 101010 01100010 11011 110110 1110 01011 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 522 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 18 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 19 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Written on February 27, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 27, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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