Analysis of Far Sick
A feather is falling from the sky
She is looking up very shy
The bird is already gone
No sight of it - none
Was it a crane?
On it's way south?
Does it fly to Spain?
To a river's mouth?
She can't say,
But she has to stay.
| Scheme | AABCDEDEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (60%) Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 010110101 11101101 0110101 11111 1101 1111 11111 10101 111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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