Analysis of Gently Pass The Graveyard Still
Halloween night
with
a
bright orange jack-a-lantern moon
hanging in the spooky sky
while
chills running
up and down
our spines
as
we
walked and whistled gently
pass the graveyard still
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKKL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011 1 0 11010101 1000101 1 110 101 101 1 1 101010 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 186 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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