Analysis of Oak



He was never my rock
but he was always my oak,
constantly standing through
whatever weather I blew his way,
and still growing.


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tanka  (60%)
Cinquain  (40%)
Metre 111011 111111 100101 10101111 0110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 126
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Written on 2019

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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