Analysis of Cradled to the Grave.
When I was old
and you were young,
just with our eyes
real love was lain.
When you are old
and I am dead,
when only mem’ries -
fleeting remain;
will you remember,
with a rose-tinted lament
what we wanted,
what we promised,
what it cost,
what we spent.?
Scheme | AXBC AXBC XDXXXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 0101 11101 1111 1111 0111 1101 1001 11010 1011001 1110 1110 111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 256 |
Words | 59 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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