Analysis of Her Love is the Sun

Carl Posle

Her love
  her love
  her love is the sun

Her touch a silent twang of a thumb.

Her love is the never-ending sun.

Scheme AAb x b
Poetic Form Tetractys  (80%)
Cinquain  (40%)
Lanturne  (40%)
Metre 01 01 01101 010101101 011010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 112
Words 23
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 1, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 28
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted on November 03, 2014

Modified on March 14, 2023

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