Analysis of Epitaph To A Scottish Lady
Here the old beauty lies with cold grey eyes,
Who lived life fast these one hundred years past,
And was number one when it came to fun
With legs unsurpassed but now closed at last.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 1011011111 1111111011 0110111111 110111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 180 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Jocular poem for someone I knew.
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