Analysis of Wishes
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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