Analysis of Japanese Beetles
130 minutes
for us to sit in silence
the sun burns my face
so I turn away
wishing you would speak
but knowing
every word you're thinking
scares me
like Japanese beetles in my hair
| Scheme | ABCDEFFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (56%) |
| Metre | 10 1111010 01111 11101 10111 110 1001110 11 10110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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