Analysis of The Volcano[Haiku]

Sun Ra

CAUTION! Falling rock!
Lava spilling and flowing
Volcano active!

By: ©William J Dorsey Jr. (Copyright) November 3, 2013

Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10101 1010010 01010 110110110010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 117
Words 18
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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