Analysis of Below this Headstone
Please take a moment
to read the inscription
written on the stone above
and tell me if it states
what caused me to be here,
was it an error, some accident
for which I had no control,
or was it a deliberate act
of some crazed soul,
did I suffer pain
or just go in silence,
should I have been a better person
or did I go to Heaven,
no one bothered to explain
my sudden absence
from existence,
nor shall they
for you,
so we must depend
upon someone else
to stop and read
the story of our demise.
I trust you are prepared
to go and wait for the reasons why.
Scheme | ABCDEAFGFHIBBHIIJKLMNOPQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 110010 1010101 011111 111111 111101100 1111101 111001001 1111 11101 111010 111101010 1111110 1110101 11010 1010 111 11 11101 0111 1101 01011001 111101 110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 431 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on September 04, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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