Analysis of Riddle
A moth, I thogh, munching a word.
How marvellously weird! a worm
Digesting a mans sayings -
A sneakthief nibbling in the shadows
At the shape of a poet`s thunderous phrases -
How unutterably strange!
And the pilfering parasite none the wiser
For the words he has swallowed.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01111001 11101 0100110 01100001 10110110010 111 00100101010 1011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 276 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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