Analysis of The snake
The snake reeled away.
I was standing nigh.
It was going at its own will.
I was standing and sigh.
At first it crossed my garden,
then got into a trough.
Raising it's head,
It swam enough.
I thought it was queer
to throw stone at it,
as it was moving
without fear.
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX BXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 01101 11101 11101111 111001 1111110 110101 1011 1101 11111 11111 11110 011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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