Analysis of Bears and Arrows



Bears and arrows fill his dreams,
each night while moonlight beams.
Little one, in your bed wrapped tight,
know that everything will be alright.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Metre 1010111 11111 10101111 1110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 141
Words 24
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 24, 2018

Modified on April 10, 2023

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