Analysis of grey
I watched your plants flourish
As your garden grew
Greener than green
Now I’m bluer than blue
Nobody will nourish
My mind quite like you
Greener than green
Brightest soul that I knew
| Scheme | abCb abCb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111110 11101 1011 111011 1110 11111 1011 101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 185 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Written on April 30, 2021
Submitted by RWHoyt on April 27, 2023
Modified on April 27, 2023
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