Analysis of Idiot (Haiku)



I stepped on a nail
I drank and ate a pink snail
I slept with one tail


Scheme AAA
Poetic Form Tercet 
Triplet
Metre 11101 1101011 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 68
Words 17
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on March 31, 2013

Modified on April 10, 2023

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