Analysis of Emerald Moth
I saw you on the ground.
You were so pretty,
but I frowned.
When I poked you,
You did not move around.
You only sat there.
Frozen on the ground.
You never made a sound.
Or if you ever could
it would be one that
I could have never understood.
For you spoke in tongue
of time stilled awe.
Beauty turned the hourglass still.
Like it often does.
Right before
it falls.
Scheme | ABACADAAEFEGHIJKL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 10110 111 1111 111101 11011 10101 110101 111101 11111 1111001 11101 1111 1010101 11101 101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 348 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 280 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on October 16, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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