Analysis of The Funeral



At the funeral

The sky got moody and blushed within.

the sun and the moon bidded farewell.

Rythm of gloom and soberness.

At the funeral

Sparkling eyes embraced the colour

of the roses in scarlet.

Regrets and gnashing were those of

they who missed the call of love.
At the funeral

Men became toddlers with wailing and

tears of lost.

The hero of the day was the spirit that

looked in silence and weep for fellow

dead men.
At the funeral

A place were every nobody becomes a


Scheme A x x x A x x b bA x x x x xA x
Poetic Form
Metre 10100 011100101 0100111 11101 10100 1010101 1010010 01010011 1110111 10100 101101100 111 01010110101 101001110 11 10100 0101001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 463
Words 89
Sentences 8
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted on April 23, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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