Analysis of Winter to spring

Joshua Swygert 2008 (Wisconsin)



As the white rain falls
The animals go silent
Then spring comes with noise


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 10111 0100110 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 75
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 14

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This haiku is about the transition between the beginning of winter and the beginning of spring

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Written on June 01, 2023

Submitted by Jswygert18 on June 01, 2023

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