Analysis of Last Shot Unheard



Is a Poem one,
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The bee sting fatal,
  —last shot unheard

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 10101 10101 01110 1101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 119
Words 19
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 10, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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