Analysis of August
Honeysuckle heat
Cast iron skies sizzle with stars
Hum cicadas hum
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 1001 11011011 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 66 |
| Words | 11 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
About this poem
A haiku capturing a specific, but shared moment in the American south.
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