Analysis of Farewell to the Flesh
Smothered in pain
Relinquished by joy
Life just a hallucination
Farewell to the flesh
As my heart burns out
Waiting for a soul
That has escaped me so vividly
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 01011 1100010 1101 11111 10101 110111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 151 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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