Analysis of Death Do Us Part
A bride on her wedding day
Usually adorned in white
Walks down the aisle
Adorned in black
A veil of red
With a ring of silver
The day she should cry tears of joy
Is the day she cries tears of pain
For the man she shall wed
Is not the man she desires
She reaches the alter
After what seems like years
She politely does as the minister asks
The audience believes she has accepted her fate
The man in white asks her if she takes this man as her husband
She looks up at him with tear filled eyes
Pulls a knife from her bouquet of bleeding white roses
"I do not
| Scheme | XXXXAB XXAX BXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110101 10000101 1101 0101 0111 101110 01111111 10111111 101111 11011010 110010 101111 10101101001 0100011101001 010110111111010 111111111 1011001110110 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 539 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on April 07, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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