Analysis of In Remembrance
If you say a man’s name,
he’s forever alive
Come hell or highwater,
the reasons abide
Losing someone’s greatness,
losing part of our own
Entombed in remembrance
—shared forever alone
(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)
Scheme | XX AX XB XB A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 101001 1111 01001 10110 1011101 010010 101001 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 211 |
Words | 33 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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