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 |
|---|---|
| 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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