Analysis of The Letter
To you I send my love on golden wings,
Endless nights in loneliness,
I wait for you,
Pouring my tears into the Ionian sea,
I search with Helen's hope of your return,
Come back to me,
Let me once again taste the wine of Dionysus on your lips.
| Scheme | X X X A X A X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111101 1010100 1111 101101011 1111011101 1111 1110110111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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She waited until she died, never knowing if her letter was read.
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