Analysis of Asia
asia stormed my sea.
asia,
she rises in me.
sweet asia.
always runs from me.
i wept for asia,
and asia wept in me.
and asia lies
catching or not,
leaves from far under trees
falling whimsically
on the dirty
twiggy
Texas
earth,
thinking of me,
and smiling.
| Scheme | ABABABACDEAAAFGAH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 10 11001 110 1111 11110 010101 0101 1011 111101 10100 1010 10 10 1 1011 010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 243 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on October 22, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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