Analysis of 80-year-old poem



In an attic dark and musty
Lay a trunk old and dusty
Locked inside are relics fair
A shiny lock of golden hair
A baby pictured, faded and torn
A tiny shoe, scuffed and worn
Some letters written in childish hand
And pictures saved of a fairyland
The only memories left of a little girl
No more the bounce of golden curls
No more the sunny impish smile
For she was made to say goodbye
To join God's playground in the sky.


Scheme AABBCCDDEFGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 01101010 1011010 1011101 01011101 010101001 0101101 110100101 01011010 010100110101 11011101 11010101 1111111 1111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 407
Words 82
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 334
Words per stanza (avg) 82
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Submitted on April 24, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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