Analysis of Castor Lake
Early one morning
By the water’s edge, neatly gnawed
Sticks and poles are stacked
Carefully. A wooden lodge
Best built by busy beavers!
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka |
| Metre | 10110 10101101 10111 1000101 1111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
On a daybreak walk to a nearby lake, I discovered new inhabitants had moved in.
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Written on December 20, 2022
Submitted by BDFRichmond on December 20, 2022
Modified on April 10, 2023
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