Analysis of Petals
Velvety soft and rich in color
they shiver ever so slightly
at your touch, they’ve unrolled
themselves for you
just look, won’t you?
there’s no need in
destroying their soft beauty.
| Scheme | ABCDDEB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100101010 11010110 11111 0111 1111 1110 0101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 187 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Written on 2018
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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