Analysis of The Blacksmith
Despair embedded, frozen chest,
Iron lung your alloy vest,
Too early to meet with needles weep;
Entombed beneath a leaden heap.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 01010101 101111 110111101 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 124 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on February 23, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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