Analysis of Melancholy
August Stramm 1874 (Münster) – 1915 (Kobryn)
Living desires
Shouldering to stand
Glimpses searching
Dying grows
Striding to strive
What is to come
SHRIEKS!
Deep
Dumbing
We.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHCI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 10010 10011 1010 101 1011 1111 1 1 10 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 126 |
| Words | 22 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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