Analysis of Crowing
I waste my time watching
Two crows fighting.
My fingers remain still
The words won’t refill
The pages remain blank,
The poem tanks.
“Writer’s block”
I hear the dam crows mock.
| Scheme | AABBCDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 1110 110011 01110 010011 0101 101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 176 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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