Analysis of at a wedding table
At a Wedding Table 6/30/17
At a glance
There blue hands had every chance
To express their aging romance
They sat with eyes affixed
This was no conjurers trick
Watching I wondered how does it stick
This aging love that seems only a prefix
To their years with no subtext
So gingerly they move together
Yet so strong they can handle any weather
It brought tears to my eyes
Because I just never learned how to be that guy
Scheme | ABBBCDDEFGGHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010 101 11111001 10111001 111101 11111 101101111 11011110010 111111 110011010 11111101010 111111 011110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 405 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 337 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on July 14, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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