Analysis of "Us Artists -- Before Public Was, or Grants, or Can Litter"
Margaret Avison 1918 (Cambridge) – 2007 (Toronto)
One wore a stilts,
one wore a daubed top-hat.
Well, among us
we were satisfat.
from "Always Now: Collected Poems of Margaret Avison," volume 2, page 47 (Erin, ON: The Porcupine's Quill, 2004)
| Scheme | XAXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Lanturne (40%) |
| Metre | 1101 110111 1011 101 1110101011001101101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 212 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on November 14, 2019
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