Analysis of On St.Columb's Wall
Like Marilyn’s dress
Your seed was lifted
By the wind,
I assume,
And left high
On the College wall.
A precarious site
For rooting,
Growing, and dying,
Yet you hang there
Wind beaten and minus
Your flower….
| Scheme | XXXXXX XAAXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 11110 101 101 011 10101 001001 110 10010 1111 110010 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 198 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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