Analysis of A Haiku
It is an itch you can't scratch
The shallowness of want
For it we give up our peace
Scheme | ABC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tercet |
Metre | 1111111 010011 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 81 |
Words | 18 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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