Analysis of Conversation drill with a ghost
Life never exalted in so rich a prize
As God's noblest work in this best is known
In that which laid the accomplished man low
Envious death so triumphed in a blow
Like the sun eclipsed at the middle of the day
Left us bleak and bare without a roof
For a world where tired skeletons live
And a man the image of my father passed
Over ten years dead at every turn appear
Will he be offended and smote me?
Will he change and charge me?
He sat on a dusty marble stone
I sat the next tomb headstone
We spoke in inscrutable silence
About those deploring things;
My childhood, my pains, lingering pains
The weight lacerating his mind
We sobbed in unison
We mourned in a synchronised cry
He told me about his death
And the existence inbetween
I begged to come with him
He said only spirits live there
When he finished his stories
He muttered my name
He transfigured and looked lovely in white
And only providence has left me here
Scheme | X A B B X X X X X C C A A X X X X X X X A X X X X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001001101 1110101111 0111001011 1001110001 101011010101 111010101 1011101001 00101011101 101111100101 111010011 111011 111010101 110111 110010010 0110101 11111001 01111 110100 110011 1110111 000101 111111 11101011 1110110 11011 11011001 0101001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 894 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 27 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 29, 2023
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