Analysis of After Yesterday
A R Ammons 1926 – 2001
After yesterday
afternoon's blue
clouds and white rain
the mockingbird
in the backyard
untied the drops from
leaves and twigs
with a long singing.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 011 1011 010 001 01011 101 10110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 139 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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