Analysis of Backyard Maple
Russell Anderson 1962 (San Bernardino)
Green backyard maple
Soon quadruples in color
Restoring the soul
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 1110 11010 01001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 64 |
| Words | 10 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
My 2nd Haiku. Sitting in the living room, looking out the back window at green maple leaves. Everybody seems exhausted by the record heat this year (again?). Autumnal equinox just around the corner. Whew!
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