Analysis of Can The Weary Word Survive?
Here the weary word comes to die,
in my lap, on the sly, whisper gasp.
With twisted leg n' arm, letters cry,
while I hammer a tongue and hasp.
This hinged box I keep to entomb,
the lock and key to exhume trade.
The corpses forlorn, in bored ruin,
a funeral march in endless parade.
This, a would be poet's confession,
I tire of flowery prose, double dose.
Of viral rhyme I'll take a secession,
n' prolific wane, curtails future posts.
Muse is on crucifix of timely demise,
has nothing more to say or expound.
Deader thus, coming as no surprise,
in future, I shall no longer be found!
Scheme | ABAB XCDC DXDX EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 10101111 011101101 110111101 11100101 11111101 01011011 010010110 0100101001 101110010 11011001101 1101110010 1010101101 1111011001 110111101 101101101 0101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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