Analysis of Slippers
My black slippers
It is for those rough soles
Which wear and tear
Those lights yonder
They come on at supper
Help those geese to bear
The hot nights of fire
Firmly I sew
| Scheme | ABCDDCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 111111 1101 1110 111110 11111 011110 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 162 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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