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 |
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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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