Analysis of Happening
Luis A Estable 1958 (Oriente, Cuba)
The little lamb was bleating.
The shepherd went to see.
The snake him squeezed to death.
The shepherd went insane.
And thus he's found today.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka (80%) Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 010111 010111 011111 010101 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 141 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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