Analysis of Short Poem: A Portrait In Tears
If
paintings
hanging
in museums,
embodied emotions
peregrinating
through footsteps
about them...
The paintings cried
when Martin, Kennedy, Elvis
and Michael died.
©06-22-2010
Clara B. Ray
| Scheme | XXAXXAXX BXB XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 10 10 0010 010010 1 11 011 0101 11010010 0101 1 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 176 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on July 08, 2010
Modified on May 03, 2023
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