Analysis of Wishes

Payton Hayes

Free verse
My dear, you sway with
the nervous passion of a
thousand
winds.
Tell my why you are
so anxious,
when
you
carry their wishes on
your eyelashes?

Scheme ABCDEFGHIJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11111 0101010 10 1 11111 110 1 1 101101 110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 142
Words 29
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Written on 2016

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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