Analysis of Writing
William Allingham 1824 (Ballyshannon) – 1889 (Hampstead)
A man who keeps a diary, pays
Due toll to many tedious days;
But life becomes eventful--then
His busy hand forgets the pen.
Most books, indeed, are records less
Of fulness than of emptiness.
Scheme | AABBCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101001 111101001 11010101 11010101 11011011 1111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 198 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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