Analysis of The century.
The bowler took long steps
to throw the orb to the batsman.
The ball pitched few yards short
and the batsman hit it to boundary.
The crowd started hue and cry.
The batsman was knocking the door of a century.
He was another four runs short of it.
The bowler was also desperate.
The crowed cheered the batsman to motivate.
This time the bowler pitched short
and the ball hit straight to the helmet of the batsman.
The batsman was lucky to escape.
The bowler looked at the batsman with twisted lips
and there were sledgings from fielders.
The next ball was full toss.
Batsman hit the ball straight.
The ball passed the bowler.
The filder tried to stop it.
But it was a boundery
and the batsman made a century.
Scheme | XABCX CDDE BAXXX XEXDCC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 010111 1101101 011111 001111100 0110101 011100110100 1101011111 01011010 01101110 1101011 001111010101 01110101 01011011101 0101110 011111 11011 011010 011111 11101 00110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 724 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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