Analysis of hawk vultures

denis marks 1948 (elgin, il)



the hawk vultures soared
high above the brown baked hills
searching for the dead


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 01101 1010111 10101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 78
Words 14
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 14

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hawk vultures are always in the air where I live

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Written on December 01, 2020

Submitted by denyjm on September 02, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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