Analysis of Clouds



A job
Feeling proud I say I love you.
Life, nothing lost and nothing gained.
Life’s illusion I recall.
Life is an educated guess.  


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tanka  (60%)
Tetractys  (40%)
Cinquain  (40%)
Metre 01 10111111 11010101 101011 1111001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 133
Words 27
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Written on July 13, 2022

Submitted on July 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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