Analysis of Brown-Skinned Girls
The hill spreads out its graceful shoulders
To road that in between them rests:
Long-legged, dew-eyed, brown-skinned girl,
Silver ribbon between her breasts.
Softly spreading out forever,
Sky, with wisps of angel hair,
Collects the sun and lets it down
To warm her body, brown and bare.
Across the earth run many ribbons
Between the breasts of many girls,
And wind round many graceful shoulders,
Tie, with many bows, their curls.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDAD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011111010 11100111 11011111 10100101 10101010 1111101 01010111 11010101 010111010 01011101 011101010 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 418 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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