Analysis of Cloth of Life [Haiku]



Threading 'gainst the Earth
Life: the cotton cloth you sew
 You are the needle


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 10101 1010111 11010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 76
Words 14
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 62
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by matiasp.29602 on July 17, 2015

Modified on April 26, 2023

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