Analysis of A Wooden Baton
Suleiman al-fulayyih 1950 (Hammad desert)
The baton,
when one day used brutally by a cop, ran
away from his grip to a tree,
where it became a new branch
flowering with glee,
softly hanging, and began
offering its fruit bountifully
Scheme | ABCDCBE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001 11111001011 01111101 1101011 10011 1010001 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 182 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on January 29, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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