Analysis of Inglorious Destruction 4
The gentle plants and flowers
Yield their fragrance, color, fruit
In servility shrink and cringe
Abused by reckless plucking
Thoughtless hands tear at beauty
Yet the natural harvest gives
The child sees inglorious destruction
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101010 1110101 01101 0111010 1011110 10100101 0110100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on January 02, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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