Analysis of nonsense



so swiftly swam
a yeg of yam
to the fishlam
in the stram

nonsense: so swiftly
swam a yeg of yam to the
fishlam in the stram


Scheme AAAA XXA
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 0111 101 001 10110 1011110 1001
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 117
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 3
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by haiku_artist on June 26, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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