Analysis of Withered
The rose given to me by my one
and only will allways live on.
The water is green and the leaves
wither
but the rose itself
will never
die.
It feeds steadily on the pain
sucked from its inch long thorns.
Indestructable.
| Scheme | ABCDEDFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) |
| Metre | 011011111 0101111 01011001 10 10101 110 1 11100101 111111 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on March 09, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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