Analysis of Shooting Stars

Amber Caillouet

Two shooting stars streak across the night sky.
They shine brighter than the sun
As they fall down, down, down.

Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1101101011 1110101 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 109
Words 20
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted by AmberCaillouet on March 16, 2016

Modified on March 14, 2023

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