Analysis of A painful day
Pleasure or pain,
Agony or misery.
Headacche, or sore,
More medicine,
more hope.
A painful day.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 1001100 111 1100 11 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 93 |
| Words | 16 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on April 02, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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