Analysis of The Sound Of The Piper
Drunk on the strength of our own
misgivings
We stagger and stray,
--- toward the sound of the piper
(Grantham New Hampshire: March, 2015)
Scheme | XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Cinquain (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
Metre | 11011101 010 11001 01011010 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 137 |
Words | 24 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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