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 |
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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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