Analysis of Summer Song
I wandered by an autumn stream
looking for what’s past
I slept inside a winter dream
searching for what lasts
I strode the paths of springtime crossed
listening for a song
Whose words, that now to me are lost
—in summer called so strong
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2013)
| Scheme | AX AX BC BC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 10101 11010101 10111 1101111 100101 11111111 010111 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 276 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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