Analysis of Still life



Snow falling softly,
Opaquely, ice butterfly
Wings elevating souls


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11010 1110 11001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 66
Words 10
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 56
Words per stanza (avg) 9

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Submitted by chrisbillnelson on February 10, 2022

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