Analysis of Blues Poem #10



Living hard,
  the writing comes easy

Living easy,
  the writing comes hard

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)


Scheme AB BA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (80%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 101 010110 1010 01011 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 108
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 13, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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