Analysis of my crimson damask rose
Eugene Redelinghuys 1974 (Wineberg)
said Mary-Sue:
"grow-up!"
always did when we
were four
thinking, how big
do you want me to be?
and today, in your opal eyes, I see
the face of a dying child
which now you knew more
when we were four.
| Scheme | XXAB XA AXBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) |
| Metre | 1101 11 1111 01 1011 111111 0010110111 0110101 11111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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