Analysis of Paper boats
Vastly open seas…
Rainbow puddles
In eves of grey
Memories of sailing
Paper boats
Across the bay
Amid a great big world
Innocence of a little boy
In time floats away
Scheme | XXA XXA XXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101 110 0111 100110 101 0101 010111 10010101 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 159 |
Words | 31 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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