Analysis of To Bleed



There is a paling canvas,
a life with too much to shed.
There is an early winter,
where snow only falls red.

- Asher J. Bond


Scheme XAXA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 110110 0111111 1111010 111011 1011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 120
Words 26
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on September 02, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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