Analysis of gravesend



Eating where,
it all began,
but forgetting,
how to undo,
what I once,
left to rot,
above that,
inconsequential grave.


Scheme ABCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 101 1101 1010 1101 111 111 011 00101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 110
Words 20
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on March 17, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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