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 |
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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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