Analysis of Wintertime



The sky is clear, but
the trees are bare. Such is the
abyss of wintertime.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 01111 0111110 01110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 75
Words 16
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 15

About this poem

I came up with this during the desolate South Carolina winters. Here it doesn't snow, it's just cold and depressing.

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Written on January 17, 2024

Submitted by pointyorb7 on January 17, 2024

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