Analysis of The Eight in Seventy Two
Ploddingly it took the form
Of some dispassionate melody
Our wailing voices at crescendo
For our undying we mourn
With care they traipsed the deck
A mass of notions in mind
Did ten artlessly disappear
or were held by the Atlantic's inside?
Still we stood and tried to inform
Searchers of our malady
That we living men hitherto
can presently not be seen
Still we stand on Mary's deck
To us the world is blind
As they neither see nor hear
our gestures nor our cries
Not all can be explained
Not all can we fathom
Some presences can't be felt
like the eight in seventy two
Scheme | ABXX CDXX ABEX CDXX XXXE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11101 110100100 1010101010 11001011 111101 0111001 11101 1011001001 11101101 10110100 1110111 1100111 1111101 110111 1110111 10101101 111101 111110 1100111 10101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 573 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on December 27, 2022
Submitted by eseiwiosaiga123 on December 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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