Analysis of Sleep Well My Love, Goodbye
At the far end of the casket,
his girlfriend hugged his wife
And told her she was sorry,
that she had tried to steal her life
Their tears then ran in unison,
for one who loved them both
The years they shared now testament,
to a choice he left unspoke
They never met before this day,
and would never meet again
But each knew well the other,
and they almost felt like friends
The mistress left, the children wept,
and the grandchildren played outside
As his wife looked down, saying “your hell has passed,
—sleep well my love, goodbye”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
Scheme | XA XA XX XX XX BX XX XX B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111010 11111 0101110 11111101 11110100 111111 01111100 101111 11010111 0110101 1111010 011111 01010101 0010111 11111101111 11111 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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