Analysis of Substitute For An Epitaph
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Kind Reader! take your choice to cry or laugh;
Here HAROLD lies, but where's his Epitaph?
If such you seek, try Westminster, and view
Ten thousand just as fit for him as you.
Scheme | AABB |
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Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1101111111 110111110 111111001 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 185 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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