Analysis of Fearing Inevitability (Haiku)



I fear it coming
As a dying leaf awaits
The soft autumn breeze


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11110 1010101 01101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 60
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 50
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on September 21, 2013

Modified on April 10, 2023

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