Analysis of Only Mortal.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
Mortality is more brutal for them.
There pleadings sometimes come to fruition.
Pleasure is seeing them unknowingly.
Displeasure is knowing you won't see them.
They're stillness - a fishing bird.
The line... crossed.
| Scheme | ABCADE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100111011 1100111010 1011010100 0101101111 1100101 011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Written on September 09, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on October 04, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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