Analysis of Scarecrow
The rain's left you moldy,
in a coating of green.
And you're the ugliest
scarecrow I've ever seen.
You're just a puppet,
in the image of man.
Clothed in dirty rags,
over a rusty tin can.
The stuffing's fallen out,
of your wind torn clothes.
And now you hang deflated,
in your once noble pose.
You look so comical,
like a crazed circus clown.
You're leaning lopsided,
and about to fall down.
With an old wrinkled face,
you're too sad for words.
Yet the crops are ready,
and there's no sign of birds.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XXDX XEDE XFAF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (35%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 011110 001011 010100 101101 11010 001011 10101 1001011 01101 11111 0111010 011101 111100 101101 110110 001111 111101 11111 101110 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on October 07, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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