Analysis of St. Martin’s Summer: The Final Cut



In the air a strange feeling lingers
It cries out, quick and silent
Danger – death’s closest friend

All eyes on you
But no one truly sees
When it comes down to a button
And a man full of fear

Senseless hatred, captured in the toys of men
The inherited policy which convinces misinformed children
That power is pain
And pain the only weapon

All with the power to see all
But understand so little
The power to use words to cover us – to hide

Suddenly,
burning like the lost love of a hardened heart
Lost in words none will ever hear
The final cut

And like a sun projecting no light, emitting no heat
A lonely eye looks down on it’s creation

Day by day, year by year
Lonely tears fall on battered Earth.


Scheme XXX XXAB XAXA XXX XXXX XA BX
Poetic Form
Metre 001011010 1111010 101101 1111 111101 11111010 001111 10101000111 00100100101000110 11011 0101010 11010111 101110 010111110111 100 10101110101 10111101 0101 01010101101011 01011111010 111111 10111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 719
Words 147
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 2, 2
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 79
Words per stanza (avg) 19

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…When it comes down to a button And a man full of fear…

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Written on April 20, 1990

Submitted on April 22, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jeremy Van Sluytman

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