Analysis of Faded Parchment



The sky with troubled clouds is filled,
    as the parchment fades,
         fair Columbia is killed.

The land with darkness shades,
    songbird caged,
         bitter play is staged.

Satyrs cup fills with bitters,
    watched by witty wall sitters,
         the parchment's letters wane,

Under gaze of crown insane,
    we suffer intense pain,
         as when we should have walked, in our beds we've lain.


Scheme ABA BCC DDE EEE
Poetic Form
Metre 01110111 10101 1010011 011101 11 10111 111110 1110110 01101 1011101 110011 111111010111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 412
Words 74
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 71
Words per stanza (avg) 15

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Submitted on March 02, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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