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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