Analysis of poem #3
David Plantinga 1972 (Sherbrooke)
Words can wriggle through the cracks
Where grosser largeness blocks,
And even with no aperture
Huskless speech can seep through locks.
Scheme | ABCB |
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Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
Metre | 1110101 110101 01011100 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 134 |
Words | 21 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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