Analysis of The fall of Roma

Graylin Jones 2008 (Baltimore)



Is it power I really seek? Rome was truly at its peak.
The Roman Calvary ever higher the drummer boy sings it’s choir
Lay me to rest assassinated before I reach my best


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 111011011110111 010100101001011110 11110100011111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 171
Words 35
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 44
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 133
Words per stanza (avg) 33

About this poem

About the dramatic assassination of Julius Ceaser

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Written on March 18, 2022

Submitted by hawkgj08 on April 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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