Analysis of Victor Necrophilia
i heard his death i mem'ry'd him
i conjured him before me slim
i looked on him whom i had known
so dangerous dark so little known
my tongue ungrown not yet to speak
it yesses he without retreat
who now is stygian he among
but stands here still before me won
as darkling as he lived to me
he may as this a shadow be
but just as darkly see'd i he
whose musk whose swart i smell i see
he saturnine and silent, he
as he is dead as I shall be
as we now consummate shall be
as we now consummated be.
Scheme | AABBCDEFGGGGGGGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 11010111 11111111 110011101 1111111 1110101 111100101 11110111 1111111 1111011 11110111 11111111 110101 11111111 11110011 1111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 384 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
About this poem
On hearing of the death of one I knew.
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Written on May 17, 2019
Submitted by lrussell876 on September 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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