Analysis of Deadly Nightshade
Thomas W. Case 1966 (California)
I was looking for tulips.
I found you, oleander,
deadly nightshade.
Nothing grows in the
darkness that you chose
to live in.
Had I known, I would have
left you to wilt and rot in
the sun
| Scheme | ABCDEFGFH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (56%) |
| Metre | 1110110 111100 101 10100 10111 110 111111 1111010 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on March 13, 2021
Modified on April 20, 2023
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