Analysis of Quiet Waters

Donka Krsteva

Away from the mundane,
thought stilled, awaiting,
on quiet waters to sail.

Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 011001 11010 1101011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 72
Words 12
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by donka_k on July 30, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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