Analysis of At Your Funeral
there will be poetry at your funeral
not sweet tributes
no cliche mourning
from a poet himself long dead
nothing so impersonal poetry will be there
in the eyes of friends
as they lean over your casket
upon the lips of your lover
during that lasy kiss
poetry of memory
held so dear
in one collective heart
flowing with chaos
un-rhymed dissymetry
that was once a life
and is now punctuated by tears
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMENO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110011100 1110 10110 10100111 1010100100111 00111 11110110 01011110 10111 1001100 111 010101 10110 111 11101 01110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 381 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 323 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on December 23, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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