Analysis of Gilbert and the Spiritual Ghost (4/10)
(Continued from 3/10)
Gilbert used to sit
alone and grieve-
none could understand
or feel his grievances,
nor his friends,
nor his father
(his stepfather),
nor any neighbors,
perhaps, his mother
could realize a bit,
but, she could do nothing.
One day he asked
his mother,
“where people go after death?”
his mother could not
able to give a simple answer,
rather, she said,
“all souls go to a special place
where they like the most.”
From the childhood
he heard a fable of a spiritual ghost
who lived inside the dark forest
and could defy the death
by bringing back those lost souls.
No one knows where he lives
except inside the remote forest,
but, a wicked witch who lives
at the very end of the village
has some idea,
she sells to the one
who fervently requests.
Gilbert, by breaking his piggy bank
went to the wicked witch
to seek advice on how to reach
the spiritual ghost.
Scheme | X AXXXXBBXBAX XBCXBXXD XDECX FEFXXXX XXXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 10111 0101 1101 111100 111 1110 110 11010 01110 11001 111110 1111 110 1101101 11011 101101010 1011 11110101 11101 101 110101010001 11010110 010101 1101111 111111 010100110 1010111 101011010 11010 11101 110001 101101101 110101 11011111 010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 930 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 11, 8, 5, 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
Pure fiction. Any similarity should be treated as mere coincidence.
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