Analysis of City Streets



Driving city streets,
Dirty gray snow pushed to the curbs,
When will it be Spring?


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 10101 10111101 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 80
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted by alexischontos on February 21, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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