Analysis of The Dead Poet
Where the poet died
while writing what,
His hand gone by
for what he thought
Were no more words
than what he got
from on his page
as just a jot
where sickle made
was Reaper Sought!
| Scheme | ABCDEFGFHD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 10101 1101 1111 1111 0111 1111 1111 1101 1101 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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