Analysis of Salty Lips

Wallace Dean LaBenne

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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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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