Analysis of A Great Shock



one night there was a knock,
it gave us a great shock,
it was was twelve o'clock


Scheme AAA
Poetic Form Tercet 
Triplet
Metre 111101 111011 111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 78
Words 17
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on October 19, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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