Analysis of Haiku XLIII

Corneigh Hoff 1950 (Assendelft)



my eyes can't see you
my brow so tired and heavy
you surround my heart


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11111 11110010 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 70
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Written on May 20, 2023

Submitted by CorneighHoff on May 19, 2023

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