Analysis of The Dance of Time
Dance, my little one,
My flower from a new dawn;
You are my laughter,
My dreaming, my joy, my hope;
Lost child of my restless youth.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka |
| Metre | 11101 1101011 11110 1101111 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 128 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
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