Analysis of Last Leaving
Your last leaving
More painful than before
My desolation was known
Yet, you left once again.
First came shock
Then disbelief
Next madness
Later sadness.
Will understanding ever come?
Or, better still,
Will I accept that
You are truly gone?
| Scheme | XXXX XXAA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 110101 101011 111101 111 101 110 1010 1010101 1101 11011 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 228 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on January 13, 2010
Modified on April 04, 2023
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