Analysis of Nurture

Soumya Pillai 1987 (Germany)



She held on to it.
Careful what you feed they said
As hope withered away.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11111 1011111 111001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 73
Words 16
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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