Analysis of Lenore



Wake in twilight, a deception
A contagious ill-conception
A dark thought a swift rejection
was all it was, nothing more...

Not once worthy of suggestion
Or a fumbling confession
I address this last reception:
To my very own


Scheme AAAX AAAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1010010 00101010 01101010 1111101 11101010 10100010 1111010 11101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 216
Words 38
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted by AboHeim on April 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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