Analysis of Madrigal #2.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
Because our life is brief
Let us laugh!
Because for joy and grief
We may quaff
Death's nepenthe soon —
Because this is life's boon
Let us laugh.
| Scheme | aBaaccB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110111 111 011101 111 111 011111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 148 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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