Analysis of Holding On

Maree Truelove

Haiku
White-knuckling it
Here on the edge of comfort
Praying for a push

Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 111 1101110 10101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 66
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by maree_t on November 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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