Analysis of Photograph
BY SATYA PATTNAIK
My photograph
Turned from east to west
From color to black
Blue became gray
I worried a lot
But someone in distance
Was smiling at me
Throwing pebbles to
Running water unperturbed
13.11.12 TUESDAY
| Scheme | A XXAXXXBX X B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 110 11111 11011 1011 11001 11010 11011 10101 101001 10 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on February 18, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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