Analysis of Behold
I saw
and I saw
what is it seen?
behold I saw a people happy or sad.
beheld to such low standards.
un true un seen un heard of...
a plane a plain a flat plane?
behold a fool buried deep in the billows underground.
is this what I had wanted you to see?
| Scheme | AABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 011 1111 01110101011 111110 1111111 0101011 0101101001010 1111110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 243 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 189 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on April 23, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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