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
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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