Analysis of Roads
You want to see the mountains,
You want to see the lakes.
To see all these and more,
A road is what one takes.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 1111010 111101 111101 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 107 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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