Analysis of Postbox



Following an initiative from Stephen Colley, an idea embraced by Bonchance and others, I open here my own Mailbox here for further discussion of reviews &c. But being a Brit., I call it a Postbox.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
Metre 1001010011010101001110101101111111001010111100111101
Characters 196
Words 35
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 155
Words per line (avg) 35
Letters per stanza (avg) 155
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Lindsay George Hall

British born and brought up, classically educated.Apart from the Greek and Latin Classics, my special enthusiasms are English and German romantic poetry, but also (outwith that loop) the spare New Englander Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins. My own stuff here is largely 'retro', but I make no apology for that. Poetry, to be poetry, needs discipline.I am happy to review (or preview) poems by request (lindsayxix@gmail.com). more…

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