Analysis of My Autograph
Susanna Strickland Moodie 1803 (Bungay, River Waveney) – 1885 (Toronto)
What -- write my name!
How vain the feeble trust,
To be remembered
When the hand is dust --
Grieve rather that the talents freely given
Were used for earth -- not treasured up for Heaven!
| Scheme | ABCBDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 110101 11010 10111 11010101010 01111101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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