Analysis of Dry Earth



Petrichor, heralds
the departure of dry earth
and lifeless pale grass


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 110 0010111 01011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 71
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 11

About this poem

First rain after a drought.

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Written on 2022

Submitted by todeidre on October 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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