Analysis of Haiku XXXIX

Corneigh Hoff 1950 (Assendelft)



I was x-rayed once
greyish blurs on midnight skies
doctors say it's bad


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 11111 11111 10111
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) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Written on May 19, 2023

Submitted by CorneighHoff on May 18, 2023

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