Analysis of My son will be wise
My oldest son
will be wiser than me
sooner than I would like
What can the tree
still offer the apple
when it is ripe to fall?
Perhaps shade
will be enough
| Scheme | XAX AXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 111011 101111 1101 110010 111111 011 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 162 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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