Analysis of Epitaph For William Pitt
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
With death doom'd to grapple,
Beneath this cold slab, he
Who lied in the Chapel
Now lies in the Abbey.
Scheme | ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111110 011111 110010 110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 109 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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