Analysis of Epitaph
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Posterity will ne'er survey
A nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveler--
Scheme | ABAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001101 010111 110111 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 112 |
Words | 19 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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