Analysis of Salty Lips
Your lips are salty,
an ocean mist residue,
seasoning my taste.
| Scheme | X X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 110110 10011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 61 |
| Words | 11 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 17 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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