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
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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