Analysis of Brevity's Child
A few syllables
Monosyllabic grunt or nod.
Good enough!
Rarely a motto, bon mot, or jest.
Slogans never.
Good enough!
More ticks to a minute
than words in his speech.
At the dais: apt.
Good enough!
Now he lies at rest.
He failed in writing
Haiku's five syllables.
Not quite good enough!
| Scheme | abCdeCfghCdiac |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01100 1111 101 100101111 1010 101 111010 11011 1011 101 11111 11010 11100 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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