Analysis of A Greiving Father.



Arms and limb.
With night lights dim.
Where is he, where is him?

A voice does cry.
Upon his chest a bruised heart lie.
Each pump only darken his bruised skin.

Upon asphalt his feet unrestly sit.
His eye's on darting only see his dim lamp lit.

"Where alas doth he sit?"
"His voice he doth faintly cry.."
Yet my boy I cannot see eye to eye

"Oh my boy where do you lie?"
Faintly seen and faintly cry
In the Dead of the night...


Scheme AAA BBX CC CBB BBX
Poetic Form
Metre 101 1111 111111 0111 01110111 111010111 0111111 111101011111 101111 1111101 1111101111 1111111 1010101 001101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 428
Words 100
Sentences 12
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 2, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Written on August 15, 2023

Submitted by joshuas.08448 on January 05, 2024

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