Analysis of What Not?
what not, the sun, shining so bright?
giving its britness to the moon at night.
what not, the grass, being so green?
putting a stain on every blue jean.
what not, the ocean, so blue and dull?
calling from the fishes to the seagulls.
what not, our world, turning nieve?
unlike the times when there were Adam and Eve.
WHAT NOT?
| Scheme | AABBCDEEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 11011011 101110111 11011011 1001110011 110101101 101010101 11101101 01011101001 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 317 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on October 26, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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