Analysis of Dirge
An unnatural
requiem
for ghosts of fiction.
She halted under
the Brooklyn
Bridge, catching rye and
waiting for mice
and men to crawl
from under traffic.
| Scheme | XXA XAX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10100 100 11110 11010 010 11010 1011 0111 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 144 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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