Analysis of Goodbye
Sarah Brower 1995 (New Jersey)
If I die today
a drop of rain won’t fall
yellow grass won’t be nursed to health
ice won’t melt on the rooftops
If I die today
sun will rise
and sun will set
flowers will bloom
flowers will die
If I die today
mankind still walks the ground
no less happy
no less sad
If I die today
the earth wont stop
it won’t spin backwards
if I die today
time lives for eternity
| Scheme | Axxx Axxxx Axbx AxxAb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 011111 10111111 111101 11101 111 0111 1011 1011 11101 111101 1110 111 11101 0111 11110 11101 1110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 373 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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