Analysis of Marlais
Dying alone on foreign ground,
death gripped his blessed hand
Raging hard across the pond,
Manhattan, his last stand
An oak to fall on alien soil,
all seeds to heaven thrown
His words cast free into the dark,
that ‘Good Night’ now his own
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
'Dylan Marlais Thomas
Scheme | XA XA XB XB XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011101 11111 1010101 010111 111111001 111101 11110101 111111 010010100 10110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 307 |
Words | 51 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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