Analysis of Sorrow
François Giroux 1982 (Canada)
She sang a sad song
Of a thousand failed beginnings
Blinded by her sorrow
She could not see
That it was but a few lines
Between a thousand empty pages
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 10101010 101010 1111 1111011 010101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 145 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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