Analysis of Spring
Sitting of the front porch at midnight
In perfectly cool calm weather
With a full moon
And star-filled blue skies.
Just a bit of traffic noise
And a whip-poor-will in the distance
Only occasionally a sound of a human;
It’s just like camping.
Solar fireflies in the bush by the porch,
Two dogs by my feet,
I look out to a medium-sparse woods
And a doe in the field next to me.
What could be better?
Clouds streak around a splotch
Like a 50’s boys seersucker sportcoat,
The moon playing peek-a-boo as they pass.
A comet streaks by from west to east
Alerting the sun
A new bay’s soon to begun.
And, life langeurs on.
Scheme | ABXX XXCX DXXX BDAX XCCX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (45%) |
Metre | 10101111 01001110 1011 01111 1011101 001110010 1001000011010 11110 1010001101 11111 1111010011 001001111 11110 110101 101111 0110101111 010111111 01001 0111101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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