Analysis of Earnest Hemingway
Once a lion, a bullfighter,
An alcoholic, boorish oftentimes.
A flirt, an outspoken character,
An adventurer, an unbridled horse.
Undoubtedly a prolific producer
A master craftsman of words,
A gifted writer, to his credit
Many accolades including the Nobel Prize.
But, towards the end
Under the claws of phobias,
With paranoid delusions,
Wreck and rummage he ended.
'Tax deadlines are not met,
FBI is hiding behind every door.
Castro's people are smelling around
Writing becomes an uphill task'.
Penniless he imagined
Pauper and bankrupt he affirmed.
Knocks he often feared
All the world he felt a conceit!
Thus his delusions continued
Mayo Clinic he finally reached.
After many shock treatment sessions, he withstood,
A few attempts of suicide also followed.
A cadaverous frame he reduced
A bundle of nerves he turned.
Innate calls ordained
Only echoes now remained.
But he succeeded at last
He finally blew out with a blast.
With a couple of shots
The fighter fought out his fate.
For whom the bell finally did toll?
Where did the brave Santiago finally sink?
'Man can be destroyed but not defeated'
which endorsed this quote?
His pen, life, or the trigger of the gun?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010010 10101010 011110100 1010010101 01000010010 0101011 010101110 10100100011 10101 10011100 110010 1010110 11111 1110011001 101011001 10011111 1001010 10010101 11101 10111001 11010010 101011001 101011010101 01011101010 011101 0101111 01101 1010101 1101011 110011101 101011 0101111 110110011 11010101001 1110111010 10111 1111010101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,213 |
Words | 229 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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The final days of Hemingway. He became a mental wreck towards the end of his life. He was often admitted to the Mayo Clinic for treatment. Finally- For whom the bell finally did toll? Where did the brave Santiago finally sink? 'Man can be destroyed but not defeated' which endorsed this quote? His pen, life, or the trigger of the gun?
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