Analysis of First Poem



One brisk Saturday morn,
I left the house with glee

To find myself within the woods,
in perfect harmony

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: May, 1959)
Miss Annette’s 5th Grade Class
St Thomas Of Villanova Grade School


Scheme XA XA XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111001 110111 1110101 001100 10101 111111 110101011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 201
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 25, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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