Analysis of One Burial Too Many
-father and son gone
-just like that in a crash
-with one burial too many
-a dark clouds of numbness
-hungs over the deceased home
-the feelings of painful loss
-takes indiscribeable entry
-on the their strained faces
-with a stoic mien
-to keep hopes alive...
By: Ofuonyebi 'Dinobi (C) September, 2013.
| Scheme | XXAXXXAXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10011 111001 11100110 011110 1100011 0101101 1110 101110 10101 11101 1111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 294 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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