Analysis of Gaze Into My Soul”



She softly gazes
into my eyes, staring down
Though the utter depths...
of my poor abysmal soul
There I lay, exposed to her.


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tanka 
Metre 11010 0111101 10101 1110101 1110110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 120
Words 23
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted by s28901098 on June 11, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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