Analysis of Soft as Air (Haiku)
You’re as soft as air
As sweet as a summer day
So why can’t you stay
Scheme | ABB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tercet |
Metre | 11111 1110101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 70 |
Words | 16 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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