Analysis of Breaking Ground
Shovel ready verse,
new soil to disturb
Whose well to make deeper
—its draft future heard
(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)
Scheme | XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) |
Metre | 10101 11101 111110 11101 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 116 |
Words | 19 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 31 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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