Analysis of April showers bring May flurries!



The middle of May
and flurries! What's this I see?
Dandelion globes:
fine, feathery parachutes
distributed by the wind.


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tanka 
Metre 01011 0101111 1001 110010 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 115
Words 19
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on September 26, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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