Analysis of Milk



He’s been there through the milk,
but will he stick around in the meat?
The smaller bumps in the road come
easier than the potholes and sharp turns.
When things get tough, will he be around?


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Tanka  (20%)
Metre 111101 111101001 01010011 100101011 111111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 192
Words 39
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 149
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Written on 2019

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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