Analysis of Epigram On My Wedding- Day To Penelope
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
This day, of all our days, has done
The worst for me and you :-
'Tis just six years since we were one,
And five since we were two.
Scheme | ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111110111 011101 11111101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 136 |
Words | 31 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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