Analysis of Virtue of Patience
Patiently sitting,
the toad on the lillypad
waits for the quick fly.
Scheme | ABC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tercet |
Metre | 10010 01101 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 66 |
Words | 12 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on October 03, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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