Analysis of Perfume Laden Air



When from the neighbouring garden the perfume-laden air
Saturates my soul with memories,
Rises the thought of the beloved plum-tree
Blooming under the eaves of the house which is gone.


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 110110001101 1111100 1001100111 101001101111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 189
Words 32
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 151
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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