Analysis of An Epilogue
John Masefield 1878 (Ledbury) – 1967 (Abingdon)
I had seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
Ao I trust, too.
| Scheme | AAAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101010 01111111010 0011110111010 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 152 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 28, 2023
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