Analysis of My Epitaph
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Youth, Nature, and relenting Jove,
To keep my Lamp in strongly strove;
But Romanelli was so stout,
He beat all three, and blew it out.
Scheme | AABB |
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Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 11000101 11110101 10010111 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 151 |
Words | 29 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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