Analysis of Death's Quota
The flowers all have scattered,
borrowed feelings cry out loud
Mock funeral of celebration,
grief false beneath their shrouds
The mourning congregation,
to the tavern marched in step
A ruse to the departed,
with each toast his memory wept
His friends then hugged his enemies,
his wife and girlfriend kissed
Through the glass a raven watches,
taking names without a miss
A ‘last call’ shouted boldly,
and all glasses drained of lies
As two wings beat out a roll call
—death’s quota flying high
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110 110111 11001010 110111 010010 1010101 0110010 11111001 11111100 11011 10101010 1010101 0111010 0110111 11111011 110101 010010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 542 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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