Analysis of You Gave Me Words Of Hope



You gave me words of hope, are they not long delayed?
The plum-tree is remembered by the Spring,
Though it seemed dead with frost.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 111111111101 0111010101 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 137
Words 26
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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