Analysis of Scintillate
Roger McGough 1937 (Litherland)
I have outlived
my youthfulness
so a quiet life for me
where once
I used to
scintillate
now I sin
till ten
past three.
| Scheme | ABC BXA XXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 11 1010111 11 111 1 111 11 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 113 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 10 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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