Analysis of Joy
flicking like a kitten's tail
Joy stays just beyond our reach
the pendulum swings and we return to middle ground
from whence we beg release
Where did I the child of joy go?
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka (60%) Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 101011 11101101 0100101011101 111101 11101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 169 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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