Analysis of The arrow
Like an arrow, slicing through the air,
with speed, piercing skin with a sharp arrow head,
dappling the ground with blood.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 111010101 11101101101 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 127 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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