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
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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Submitted by DavidPlantinga on March 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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