Analysis of The Scream
I have spent so long That the once-sweet sound
hearing of silence
the noise
rings
of car horns
blaring its mouth
of barking hanging open
laughing in a horrifying scream
screaming even Edvard Munch
shouting couldn’t do justice.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111110111 10110 01 1 111 1011 1101010 10001001 101011 101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 41 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 26 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 261 |
About this poem
It’s about noise.
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