Analysis of Angelica the Doorkeeper
The falcon soars
The town's gates are even higher
Angelica's their doorkeeper
She's wound the sun round her head
She's tied the moon round her waist
She's hung herself with stars.
| Scheme | XA AXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 01111010 1110 1101101 1101101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 182 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 26, 2023
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