Analysis of Fir tree
By the river
A fir tree
Gradually
The shadow of the river rises
Blends into the trunk
Hides inside for many days
One night
It walks to a distant village
Going closer to the mother tree
Pours a whole river.
Scheme | AB BXXX XXB A |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 1010 011 1000 01101010 10101 1011101 11 11101010 101010101 10110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 209 |
Words | 43 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Written on April 20, 2020
Submitted by feroz.Shah on May 11, 2022
Modified on April 29, 2023
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