Analysis of THE DEATH OF PIP
SWIFT 1985 (Bury)
Even before I knew,
I knew.
It's not a loss of thought, but a confusion -
a trip down 'memory lame'.
You jostle and you nudge,
and you
shake
and you swear,
and you read every piece
of literature whilst preparing to prepare.
But when they're gone,
when they're DEAD, what will you do..?
Will you try to fashion a corpse
built on the framework
of the man you once knew?
We all will follow in those dark,
heavy brogues…
So, lace -
with the solace of a
curated
(kindly done)
gentleman,
who is wond'ring why you're not making a better use of your plans.
No comment.
No shame.
No will.
Just a shame.
That so far,
your total is…
Scheme | AA BC XAXDED XA XXA XE XXFBBX FCX C XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111 11 11011110010 0111001 110011 01 1 011 0111001 110001010101 1111 1111111 11111001 1101 101111 11110011 101 11 101010 1 101 100 1111111100101111 110 11 11 101 111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 677 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 6, 2, 3, 2, 6, 3, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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