Analysis of Marriage Vows



Hilter married Eva
just before the suicide,
He professed his love,
Desire to be, together
Forever, as one, married.

He wasn't all that bad.
Some marriages end
slowly fading away.


Scheme XXXXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 101010 10111 01011010 0101110 110111 11001 101001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 171
Words 30
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 3
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 70
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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