Analysis of Haiku XXXIV

Corneigh Hoff 1950 (Assendelft)



watch the light, she said
I looked at her worn, bare skin
watching it, I said


Scheme ABA
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 10111 1110111 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 77
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Written on May 15, 2023

Submitted by CorneighHoff on May 14, 2023

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