Analysis of Thirds



One-third of the day I'm workin!
One-third of the day I'm dreamin!
One-third of the day I'm sleepin!


Scheme AAA
Poetic Form Tercet 
Triplet
Metre 1110111 1110111 1110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 100
Words 20
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 18

About this poem

Written in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on a supposed working vacation.

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Written on March 21, 2023

Submitted by steveprutz on May 01, 2023

Modified on May 03, 2023

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