Analysis of David
O beautiful David,
how I struggle to climb your high pedestal.
To hold you,
and to love you.
But you are too close to the gods
for mere mortals
to reach.
And the marble perch
on which I have placed you
is too slippery
for clinging.
If only
you could
reach down
to me.
Scheme | XXAA XXX XABX BXXB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) |
Metre | 110010 11101111100 111 0111 11111101 1110 11 00101 111111 11100 110 110 11 11 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 253 |
Words | 54 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on March 24, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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