Analysis of And Be Gone
You’ll know when its time…
you won’t fight it
or struggle,
you won’t lie to yourself
—or try to hang on
You’ll let everything go
as it’s time to unburden,
your mind and your spirit,
your heart
—and be gone
(Presbyterian Hospital: July, 2019)
| Scheme | XXXXX XXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 1111 110 111101 11111 11101 1111010 110110 11 011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 247 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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