Analysis of The walking dead



I AM THE WALKING DEAD,
NOTHING LEFT IN MY HEAD.
nOTHING LEFT IN MY HEART,
I AM LOST AND APART.
FROM THE LIVING.
I HAVE GIVEN UP,
 i CANT WALK ANYMORE.
THE PAIN IS TOO GREAT,
MY HEART TOO WEAK,
IF ALL I HAD WAS A LITTLE HOPE,
I COULD WALK WITH THE LIVING.
RIP


Scheme AABBCDEFGHCI
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 101011 101011 111001 1010 11101 11101 01111 1111 111110101 1111010 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 247
Words 55
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 192
Words per stanza (avg) 55
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Submitted on April 02, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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