Analysis of paint brush and the hammer



The paint brush swirls,
the hammer twirls.
The hammer crashes
the paint brush clashes


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 0111 0101 01010 01110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 86
Words 17
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 70
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Written on February 27, 2024

Submitted by klewis30 on February 27, 2024

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