Analysis of Tar
Roberto Suárez Torres 1983 (New York)
that black sticky tar
by the shores of a grotto,
like a stew boiling.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Haiku Tercet |
| Metre | 11101 101101 10110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 69 |
| Words | 15 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Written on February 27, 2022
Submitted by robertrad2021 on February 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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