Analysis of Waterfall



Waterfall, blood moon
          Hear the rush, against the rocks
              Feel natures strong pulse


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 1011 1010101 11011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 124
Words 18
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 18

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A haiku, about the power, found in nature.

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Submitted on July 12, 2023

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