Analysis of Blue Castles and Windmills



if
day
have eyes to see
while
night has eyes
to dream
of
blue castles and windmills
thus
into
the
twilight


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKL
Poetic Form
Metre 1 1 1111 1 111 11 1 11001 1 01 0 1
Characters 106
Words 21
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 7
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 86
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Written on February 20, 2021

Submitted by gregory_g on April 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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