Analysis of Thistles
Stately they stand high in the lawn,
Waiting the moment to be airborne,
A brisk wind and away they go,
Highlighted by sun in its afterglow.
Millions of seeds there in the sky,
Many will live while others may die,
Miles and miles spectacular to see,
Lie on the grass watch them flying free.
Oh how easy for them to propagate,
Once their released it's hard to equate,
Where and when each will alight,
These little parachutes hover just right.
Pick a stalk blow on the stem,
Select another and do it again,
Observe the manner in which they float,
Visible on land or from a motor boat.
Nature has ways in which to survive,
Like this thistle and how it'll thrive,
Unaided by man the seed is sown,
Simply by wind and where it's blown.
Scheme | ABCCDDEEFFGGHIJJKKLL |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 10111001 10010111 01100111 10110110 10111001 101111011 101010011 110111101 111011110 110111101 1011101 110101011 1011101 0101001101 010100111 10011110101 101101101 111001101 010110111 10110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 709 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 570 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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