Analysis of Mourning Sadness
Cameron Hardenburg 2002
But who will mourn the loss of sadness,
To atone for the cost of its passing?
For a world without would be one of madness,
With endless laughter and yet no gasping.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111101110 1011011110 10101111110 1101001110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 167 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Written on April 08, 2023
Submitted by Hardenburg on April 08, 2023
Modified on April 27, 2023
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