Analysis of Shadows (Attempted Haiku)



Chills ran down her back
A cold shadow slowly moved
Slowly descending


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11101 011101 10010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 67
Words 12
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted on June 19, 2016

Modified on April 10, 2023

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