Analysis of Life:Three Lines



keeping aside the ashes
i stand before the flame
my shadow cool and wavering.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1001010 110101 1110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 77
Words 14
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by quaidzaman7 on May 23, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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