Analysis of Haiku XXVI

Corneigh Hoff 1950 (Assendelft)



love is sweet and harsh
sugar bullets piercing hearts
love is harsh and sweet


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11101 1010101 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 77
Words 14
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 64
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Written on May 05, 2023

Submitted by CorneighHoff on May 04, 2023

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