Analysis of Immortality
Joseph Seamon Cotter 1861 (Louisville) – 1949
From your life's blood to coin a trenchant word--
The past, the present and the future's ken
To hold--and weave it to a ringing chord
That sounds within the changing hearts of men.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4 Line |
| Metre | 1111110101 0101000101 1101110101 1101010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 188 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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