Analysis of Sorrowful Life
Sorrow will be my life,
And sorrow will be my companion.
Sorrow will see me through to death,
And sorrow will be my death.
Sorrow will be my only friend,
And sorrow will be close to me always.
Sorrow is in me,
And sorrow will gently see me to sleep.
| Scheme | ABCCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101111 010111010 10111111 0101111 10111101 010111111 10101 0101101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 249 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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