Analysis of Eternal Portraits
RAYMOND NICHOLS 1966 (Virginia)
Just like a camera
Frozen in time
Not captured on film
Just descriptive rhyme
Poetry captures history
And signs of the times
In pictures that don't fade
In picturesque rhymes
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110100 1001 11011 10101 10010100 01101 010111 01001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 174 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
published in 2012 https://eternalportraits.blogspot.com/
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Written on 2012
Submitted by LordNichols on March 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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