Analysis of Love's Fading Light - Tanka
As love's lights fading
Its flame flickers as it dies
Leaving those embers
Of the bitter sweet parting
Embers where memories lie
TjHatton 29/06/13
| Scheme | AXXAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 1110111 10110 1010110 1011001 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on August 19, 2013
Modified on April 14, 2023
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