Analysis of You tumble me



I heard you say goodnight
A beautiful bird
Meandering in air
Your words floated along
As if, laying atop a liquid current
Running into my ear
I am deluged
In your kisses
You tumble me

Jack Richards
 copyright 2007
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Scheme AXXXXXXXB XAB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 01001 010001 111001 11100101010 100111 1110 0110 1101 110 10 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 224
Words 41
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 3
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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