Analysis of Riddle
The riddle of a mockingbird
skreeks against the sky --
the sparks of an autumn sunset
glow orange, then red, and die.
A train eats up the distance
between infinity and here.
But all I see is nightfall,
and loneliness all I fear.
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 0101010 10101 0111101 1101101 0111010 01010001 111111 0100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 221 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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