Analysis of Green Fruit



In the valley with my fate

Angle mountain straight and staring

I culled green fruit.

No flower, yet root,

Cross Spring and fallow youth awakened.


Scheme X X A A X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Metre 0010111 10101010 1111 11011 11011010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 149
Words 31
Sentences 2
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 23
Words per stanza (avg) 5

About this poem

This is more coming of age than anything else.

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Submitted by 1220marybg on May 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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