Analysis of It's a missile(haiku)

Meshack Bwoyele Keya 1960 (Vihiga)



It's a missile
Deadly kills undetected
It be but the tongue


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1010 101010 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 57
Words 11
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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