Analysis of A summer afternoon by Trajan’s column
Imprints of faces, heroes and victorious wars eternalized,
spiraled the alabaster column tell the glory
of an emperor long gone, his name divinized.
His 3D story made glorious by shadows
of the setting sun, worn by time and elements,
His bronze likeness used to stand atop this pedestal
and removed to give way to the likeness
of the man who holds the keys of heaven.
Gorgeous prelude to darkness casts bright interludes of the past.
Splendors of lost enterprise dissolved into graven history.
Theirs the sensuous invitation to live
and carve names that last; think of the wars to be fought,
faith to be professed and martyrdom.
There are no easy ways for names to be uttered like gods;
There are no easy ways for names to be revered by the living.
Scheme | ABAXX XXXAB XAXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110100010011 100100101010 1110011111 1110110011 101011110100 1110111011100 0011111010 1011101110 1011101110101 11110010110100 1010001011 011111101111 111010100 11110111111011 1111011111011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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