Analysis of Melancholy
Darkness covers the land
Rain is pouring without end
The sun is standing low
The landscape waits for snow
Birds are flying south
Quiet becomes the house
Abundant is the beech
Sunrays out of reach
Loneliness is everywhere
And the melancholy is here
| Scheme | ABCCDEFFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 101001 1110011 011101 01111 11101 100101 010101 1111 100110 0010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 238 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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