Analysis of Lovely Thing



A
cold
gray day

hopping
through the snow

so full of life

a sparrow
and its tiny heart
melting
sorrow away


Scheme XXA BC X CXBA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (70%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 0 1 11 10 101 1111 010 01101 10 1001
Characters 126
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 2, 1, 4
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 9
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 21
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by Traian06 on November 01, 2023

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