Analysis of On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf

Alexander Posey 1873 (Eufaula, Creek Nation, Indian Territory) – 1908 (Oklahoma)



How savage, fierce and grim!
     His bones are bleached and white.
But what is death to him?
     He grins as if to bite.
He mocks the fate
     That bade, ''Begone.''
There's fierceness stamped
     In ev'ry bone.

Let silence settle from the midnight sky—
Such silence as you've broken with your cry;
The bleak wind howl, unto the ut'most verge
Of this mighty waste, thy fitting dirge.


Scheme ABABXCXC DDEE
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 111101 111111 111111 1101 111 111 011 110101011 1101110111 011110011 111011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 379
Words 67
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted by halel on July 13, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alexander Posey

Alexander Lawrence Posey was an American poet, humorist, journalist, and politician in the Creek Nation. He founded the Eufaula Indian Journal in 1901, the first Native American daily newspaper. more…

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