Analysis of The World Cries And Atlas Sighs
The weight of the world came crashing down her cheek.
I kissed her forehead and said, “Even the tearless still weep.”
But this slipped off a shrug of her shoulders, forever away.
And then Atlas had sighed, with nothing to say.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101110101 1101001100111 111101101001001 01101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 227 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on June 26, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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