Analysis of March
Now winter lies discarded,
like old trash blown
into brown piles
outside the fences,
dripping
into gray pools
along some road,
unnoticed,
unwanted,
unrewarded
for pulling the earth,
one more time,
through to spring.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHAAIJE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010 1111 0111 11010 10 0111 0111 010 010 1 11001 111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 203 |
Words | 34 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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