Analysis of Hybrid



Absently,
she swirls
the deep, burgundy wine
around and around
in her glass.

Could it be
she sees in me
her blue blood
tainted
with common red?


Scheme XXXXX AAXXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 1 11 011001 01001 001 111 1101 011 10 1101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 134
Words 27
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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