Analysis of On Satan's Grave
Between the lines
You read my story
The pain I felt
You washed in glory
New letters rose
The words reformed
As Angel’s marched
With time forlorn
On Satan’s grave
A vesper bell
Salvation rings
—all lies in hell
(Philadelphia Pennsylvania: June, 2014)
| Scheme | XAXAXXXXXBXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 11110 0111 11010 1101 0101 1101 1101 111 0101 0101 1101 01000101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 245 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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