Analysis of Bereavement.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
The little feet have left the house,
The little voice is still:
Without, the wan wind-weary boughs;
Within, the will
To go and hear the wee feet tread
Within the garden of the dead.
| Scheme | ABCBDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011101 010111 01011101 0101 11010111 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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