Analysis of To Yearn
Roberto Suarez Torres 1983 (New York)
A hand that once stroked
a face that yearns in a dive
all the cards playing.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Haiku Tercet |
| Metre | 01111 0111001 10110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 74 |
| Words | 16 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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