Analysis of The Letter
Dear Father, I am writing to you
From a cold lonely place
Sad and confused;
The day I left, is the day I died
The warmth in your house
I had despised;
I miss your smile, so dear to me
For now faces grunt
Sorely displeased;
I'm struggling to work, or to eat
In Your house was plenty
Abundance of meat;
As I close this letter, never forget
One day your dreaded servant
Would like to come back ...
| Scheme | XXX XXX ABX CAC XBX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 110111011 101101 1001 011110111 01011 1101 11111111 11101 1001 110011111 011110 01011 1111101001 1111010 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 380 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on December 14, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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