Analysis of i Saw a Woman
i saw a woman
Dancing on her grave
She smiled and sang
La la lee
La la lo
La la lee
La la lo
She picked up Death's cat
By tail & twirled the thing
La la lee
La la lo
Death watched curriously
How this thing could be
La la lee
He scratched his head
La la lo
The woman looked back at Death
And flipped him off
Her skeleton bones
Were white as snow
Now her dance
Was beginning to slow
Death thought now
Was her time to go
Instead
She skinned the cat
And made a dress
Put it on
And picked up her song
La la lee
Death's eyes popped out
At what he saw next
The woman's bones
Grew new flesh
Her hair combed and tapered in curls
Death ran at her with fury
But tripped along
An old tomebstone
La la lo
Death on the ground
She picked up her dance
And danced on Death
Bone by bone
She trampled him in the ground
The last thing he saw
Was the woman's child
And he sang and danced
La la lee
Along with a whole
Party of bones
La la lo
Scheme | axxBCBC dxBC bbBeC fxgchc xc edxxiB xxgx xbiaC jhf xj xxxBxgC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 10101 1101 111 111 111 111 11111 11101 111 111 111 11111 111 1111 111 0101111 0111 01001 0111 101 101011 111 10111 01 1101 0101 111 01101 111 1111 11111 0101 111 01101001 1110110 1101 111 111 1101 11101 0111 111 1101001 01111 10101 01101 111 01101 1011 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 883 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 4, 5, 6, 2, 6, 4, 5, 3, 2, 7 |
Lines Amount | 51 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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