Analysis of Lassie
I stand before you after all these years
Amid the ocean brine with misty tears
On these old banks above the Fundy Bay
With all those words I never got to say
Wild daisies spread themselves across your grave
Where lies the fallen marker that I made
When I was but a child and new to death
In Grief so deep it nearly took my breath
That broken house still sits above the bay
Now weathered by those many stormy days
Those years we walked along that rocky shore
Those years you saw me safely to my door
And now that I am old I do believe
You where an angel God had sent to me
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In Loving Memory
Scheme | XXAA XXBB AXCC XD D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110111 0101011101 111101011 1111110111 1101010111 1101010111 1111010111 0111110111 1101110101 1101110101 1111011101 1111110111 0111111101 1111011111 1 010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on June 14, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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