Analysis of Love
Roberto Suárez Torres 1983 (New York)
Soft a firm drop on a crag
from the rill of a still bag
that each day quickly shall shed;
heard trickles by riverbeds
and like stars with love we wag.
| Scheme | AABCA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Cinquain (40%) |
| Metre | 1011101 1011011 1111011 11011 0111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 150 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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