Analysis of Tanabata Sama
People in love
say many things
only lovers understand
Hearing voices
ringing bells
that time cannot command
People in love
go hand in hand
to course the Milky Way
Promises made
as joy unlocks
—forever and a day
(The New Room: July, 2023)
| Scheme | AbcxxcAcdxbd x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 1101 101001 1010 101 111001 1001 1101 110101 1001 111 010001 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 241 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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