Analysis of As banked clouds
As banked clouds
are swept apart by the wind,
at dawn the sudden cry
of the first wild geese
winging across the mountains.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka (60%) Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (40%) |
| Metre | 111 1101101 110101 10111 1001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 126 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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