Analysis of Guilty

Lydia Sheffler Brown 1959 (New York)



I did it again,
But I'm never quite sure why
I cannot resist!


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11101 1110111 11001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 62
Words 14
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 46
Words per stanza (avg) 13

About this poem

A poem about temptation.

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Written on April 22, 2023

Submitted by lydiab.97979 on April 22, 2023

Modified on April 23, 2023

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