Analysis of Meadow So Dear



A ray of warm sunshine
  sparkling delight

An arrival so blessed
  on wings of a sprite

Its music plays silent
  from distant to near

Springtime is calling
  —the meadow so dear

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2015)


Scheme XA XA XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 01111 1001 101011 11101 110110 11011 1110 0111 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 211
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 07, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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