Analysis of He's dead!
Royston 1946 (Reading)
He’s dead! I cannot believe that He just died.
They beat Him and had Him crucified.
Now He’s gone. The One I used to follow,
and without Him life is bleak and hollow.
What shall I do, and where shall I go?
You tell me what to do, for I don’t know.
My world has fallen down and crashed.
My hopes all pulverised and
| Scheme | AABB BBXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11110011111 11101110 1110111110 0011111010 111101111 1111111111 11110101 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 320 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
The bleak period between the death and resurrection of Jesus
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