Analysis of Burial Row
Born of perdition’s rage
and damnation
his life was spent in vain
Orphaned by every dead-end street
where darkness hides
the greatest pain
Fear his lone relation
among shadows
with no escape
Living disowned on burial row
cursing each gravestone
—dying in place
(The New Room: September, 2023)
| Scheme | XAB XXB AXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 0010 111101 101100111 1101 0101 111010 011 1101 100111001 1011 1001 011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 314 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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