Analysis of Design
A R Ammons 1926 – 2001
The drop seeps whole
from boulder-lichen
or ledge moss and drops,
joining, to trickle,
run, fall, dash,
sprawl in held deeps,
to rush shallows, spill
thin through heights,
but then, edging,
to eddy aside, nothing
of all but nothing's
curl of motion spent.
| Scheme | XXA XXA XXB BXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 11010 11101 10110 111 1011 1111 111 1110 1100110 11110 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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